[osgeo4w-dev] apt install libspatialindex fails

[Matt Wilkie]

Hi Charles, thanks for the bug report. 

It looks like apt is being nitpicky about parsing the package name and 
is expecting a a trailing '-N' before the file extension (see graphic 
at 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions#ProblematicPackageVersions). 
Judging from the fact that libspatialindex has had it's current package 
name since 2010, and a previous package in 2009 of same nature, I 
deduce that osgeo-setup.exe is more forgiving about lack of a package 
number.  So for the moment I suggest using the setup.exe for this 
particular package.

Personally I think this is a bug on the part of the exe installer, not 
following the package name spec, but since apt is the little guy here 
I'll try and bring it inline. ;-)

matt wilkie
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On October-03-11 8:28:34 AM, Charles Karney wrote:
> I've started using apt to install OSGeo4W packages and today I ran into
> a problem installing libspatialindex and libspatialindex-devel.  The
> version is
>
>      Id: apt.py 1179 2011-09-01 12:42:24Z maphe
>
> Here's the transcript.  Any help would be appreciated...
>
> $ apt install libspatialindex{,-devel}
>
> Fetching
> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/./release/libspatialindex/libspatialindex-devel/libspatialindex-devel-1.6.1.tar.bz2
> ...100%
> C:/OSGeo4W/var/cache/setup/http%3a%2f%2fdownload.osgeo.org%2fosgeo4w/./release/libspatialindex/libspatialindex-devel/libspatialindex-devel-1.6.1.tar.bz2
>
> a72ebc33b5b8786dce93c1e17dbe23b5  libspatialindex-devel-1.6.1.tar.bz2 -
> remote
> a72ebc33b5b8786dce93c1e17dbe23b5  libspatialindex-devel-1.6.1.tar.bz2 -
> local
> C:/OSGeo4W/var/cache/setup/http%3a%2f%2fdownload.osgeo.org%2fosgeo4w/./release/libspatialindex/libspatialindex-1.6.1.tar.bz2
>
> 09c3e1eb29089461a4dcdabecc85f053  libspatialindex-1.6.1.tar.bz2 - remote
> 09c3e1eb29089461a4dcdabecc85f053  libspatialindex-1.6.1.tar.bz2 - local
>
>
> *** Error parsing version numer from "libspatialindex-1.6.1.tar.bz2"
>
>
> to install:
>       libspatialindex-devel libspatialindex
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "<string>", line 1043, in<module>
>     File "<string>", line 150, in install
>     File "<string>", line 169, in install_next
>     File "<string>", line 178, in install_next
>     File "<string>", line 617, in get_version
>     File "<string>", line 736, in split_ball
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>