[17:37] <Kilos> hi genova welcome to ubuntu-africxa
[17:37] <Kilos> africa as well
[17:59] <genova> hi Kilos
[18:10] <Kilos> hi Na3iL
[18:10] <Na3iL> o/ Kilos
[18:11] <Kilos> how good are you with questions like this
[18:12] <Kilos>  I posted a question earlier about packing a python3 gtk application. I've managed to package it as a deb, but the python part keeps getting installed in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/
[18:12] <Kilos> I'd like the whole application to be installed in /usr/share/
[18:12] <Kilos> How can can I modifyu the debian/rules file to install to this location.
[18:14] <Na3iL> You mean Kilos you wanna know how to tell Ubuntu where to install your programs? right
[18:15] <Kilos> thats what i get from those questions, we have a guy asked in the za channel and im trying to find him some help
[18:15] <Kilos> if you can sort it ill bring him here
[18:16] <Na3iL> I think  I can sort it just with further explanation for the problem..
[18:16] <Kilos> ok ill bring him
[18:16] <Na3iL> Okay
[18:16] <Kilos> ty
[18:17] <Na3iL> yw :D
[18:25] <Na3iL> Kilos, after some searching, he can't, make the package manager put any file anywhere except its default location..
[18:25] <Kilos> oh my ill tell him ty Na3iL
[18:26] <Kilos> aw here he is
[18:26] <Kilos> hi stucomplex
[18:26] <Na3iL> Hey stucomplex welcome to #ubuntu-africa :)
[18:26] <Kilos> you just missed an answer
[18:26] <stucomplex> thanks kilos
[18:26] <Kilos> stucomplex  Na3iL thinks you cannot do it but hear from him
[18:27] <Na3iL> stucomplex, basically you can't make the package manager put any file anywhere except its default locations
[18:28] <Na3iL> You cannot change the default locations to install software with apt-get, the Software Center,
[18:28] <Na3iL> or the other package management tools in Ubuntu...
[18:28] <stucomplex> hi Na3iL
[18:28] <Na3iL> You can manually retrieve packages and extract their files wherever you want, but you almost certainly wouldn't want to do that..
[18:29] <Na3iL> by just typing which "your program name"
[18:30] <Na3iL> take a look stucomplex → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
[18:31] <stucomplex> hmmm, ok, maybe I did not explain better.
[18:32] <stucomplex> I'm current building the .deb file, eg fiddling around with debian/changelog, debian/control
[18:32] <stucomplex> *currently
[18:33] <stucomplex> I've read that within the debain/rules file you can do somesort of override_auto_install set the install locations
[18:34] <Kilos> oh we have a debian dev here as well
[18:34] <Kilos> if you guys get stuck call cyrilb
[18:36] <cyrilb> hi guys
[18:36] <stucomplex> there is an application called terminator which is also a python-gtk application -> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/trunk/files
[18:36] <Kilos> hi cyrilb
[18:36] <cyrilb> talking about debian/rules?
[18:36] <cyrilb> :)
[18:36] <Kilos> yeah man
[18:36] <Na3iL> Well, I think we need cyrilb I think he will be more helpful than me :)
[18:36] <stucomplex> for that project the terminatorlib is a python module which is installed in /usr/share/terminator
[18:38] <Na3iL> \o/ am a big fan of terminator :D
[18:39] <stucomplex> yeah, It's awesome :D
[18:40] <Kilos> wb craigbrash
[18:40] <Na3iL> The only thing that I know stucomplex , that packages install files throughout the filesystem,
[18:41] <Na3iL> mostly in different subdirectories of /usr. This is in accordance with the filesystem hierarchy standard which specifies where different kinds of files,
[18:41] <craigbrash> Kilos hello and  Na3iL
[18:41] <Na3iL> associated with installed programs and libraries
[18:41] <Na3iL> which are supposed to go in a GNU/Linux system :)
[18:41] <Kilos> cyrilb  we waiting for your wisdom here
[18:41] <Na3iL> o/ hey craigbrash
[18:42] <stucomplex> thanks Na3iL
[18:43] <Na3iL> You welcome stucomplex I hope that I helped at least
[18:43] <Na3iL> and to be sure am waiting the reply of cyrilb
[18:44] <stucomplex> as it currently stands when install my package the the python part gets installed in /usr/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/
[18:44] <stucomplex> but its not a module
[18:44] <stucomplex> so i'd like it installed with all the other data file in /usr/share/{program}
[18:47] <Na3iL> I am wondering why you wanna modify its installation location..
[18:51] <stucomplex> I think that if one is creating a python module then it should be installed in /usr/lib/python3, but if it is a GUI application then it should not be placed in /usr/lib/python3
[18:55] <Kilos> i need to sleep guys. good luck stucomplex
[18:55] <Kilos> night all
[18:56] <Na3iL> Yeah indeed stucomplex I will search for a solution
[19:05] <stucomplex> hmmm, might have found something in https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Packaging
[19:05] <stucomplex> override_dh_auto_install: python setup.py install --root=debian/charm --install-layout=deb --install-lib=/usr/share/charm --install-scripts=/usr/share/charm
[19:06] <stucomplex> but in the terminator debian/rules there is a variable DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_ARGS_ALL +=--install-lib=/usr/share/terminator --install-scripts=/usr/share/terminator