Debian Repository?

Any chance on making a Debian package repository (and .deb package) so it's easy and automated to install and upgrade the client? That would be very nice. By the way, Google does this for Picasa and it's a great help. Thanks for making this available for Linux users!

This might happen, though not for a while. More likely we'll pursue other options for automated upgrades.

In case you don't know how a repository works or is set up, it's quite easy to set up and maintain, especially if you're already using Debian servers.

If you don't put out a repository, please at least make Debian packages available for manual download. That way you can specify dependencies which will allow the Debian system to automatically download and install those dependencies. It's also very easy to make a Debian package. Plus after you've done it once, it could be automated so you don't have to keep making new packages for each release.

I'm sure that anyone on the debian-user mailing list and/or myself would be willing to help out if needed.

Again, thanks for making the Second Life client available for Linux users.

Now that we're open-source, I'm personally hoping that the viewer will work its way into the various standard distribution streams, maintained by the community - still have a way to go on that one though, for a few reasons.

Meanwhile I'm still quite interested in providing a .deb or similar, but my experience is that it can be monsterously hard to generate a single .deb to work on a wide cross-section of Debian-derived distros (please correct me if this has gotten easier!), and a multitude of distro-specific packages maintained centrally is something I've resisted for the sake of sanity.

Thanks for the offer of help - packaging is something I'd like to re-examine during the beta period, which should be soon!

SL client is already packaged for Ubuntu (unofficial repository):
http://au.ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/edgy-cafuego/secondlife/

I think those packages may work on Debian too,
could any Debian users give them a try and report?

Hi. I added source for the SL client package in my list and tried to install through Synaptic. I ended up with this :
secondlife:
Depends: ia32-libs-sdl but it is not installable

I'm not sure what this file is for exactly but from my once over I think it's needed to run SL on a 64bit install. I believe the file is different in Debian and that ia32-libs-sdl is Ubuntu centric....

I couldn't get SL running myself on a Debian Etch build and came across ia32-libs-sdl while trying to get Flash playing.

this solved all :apt-get install linux32

I still get the same Synaptic error.

If this helps this is the error after apt-get install secondlife:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
secondlife: Depends: ia32-libs-sdl but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

-TyKER