deluge-core and deluge-webui require graphicsy stuff??

[hymerman]

Hi, I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, and have spotted that deluge is in the repositories now (I've been using a version compiled from source ages ago until now). But installing them drags in all sorts of suspect stuff. apt-get install deluge-core deluge-webui outputs this:

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The following extra packages will be installed:
  defoma deluge-common fontconfig-config libboost-filesystem1.38.0
  libboost-python1.38.0 libboost-system1.38.0 libboost-thread1.38.0
  libdrm-intel1 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1
  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libice6 libsm6 libtorrent-rasterbar5 libxaw7
  libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4
  libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtrap6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1
  libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 python-chardet python-libtorrent python-xdg
  ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra x11-utils x11-xserver-utils
  xdg-utils
...

Mesa drivers? Radeon stuff? x11? This is a headless server, there's nothing Radeon in it. I don't want to clutter it with graphics-related stuff. I don't even want X. Are these really dependencies or has something gone wrong?

[abubin]

some of these are packages required for GTK ui which is compiled by default.

If you do not want those, you can compile without the GTK ui. But I am not sure which packages can be omitted and what are the configure settings. Been wanting to do this as I also only uses webui but have not got the time to experiment yet. You can try and then post here your success.

[hymerman]

Oh, I'm not super-bothered about it, I just thought I'd post to see if I've done something wrong, or otherwise to alert whoever cares that the dependencies are weird. Looks like it's the latter: I thought the point of splitting up packages into core, web-ui, and whatever the gui is called, was to minimise the number of things you'd need to install.

[johnnyg]

According to : http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/deluge-core and http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/deluge-webui
there are no graphical dependencies in those packages.

Perhaps it was trying to update something else?

Run

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

and then try to install deluge again.

[hymerman]

deluge-webui looks pretty clean, but deluge-core depends on xdg-utils which depends on x11utils which brings in lots of junk. Though by the looks of things, the packages listed as 'suggested' were also installed - any idea how to stop apt-get getting those? I've only used it in a fairly basic way thus far.

[johnnyg]

according to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/xdg-utils

xdg-utils only recommends x11-utils

try something like:

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sudo apt-get install xdg-utils --no-install-recommends

[hymerman]

Ok, that'll reduce the amount of crap fetched by a considerable amount, thanks. I still don't see why xdg-utils is required though, I don't even have a desktop