Ubuntu daily packages

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Oct 16, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to Miika giving me some partially working code and more importantly some great ideas, I think I have working Ubuntu packages...
>> 
>> I tested 17.04 and that seems fine (i.e., has working maps), but I'd love if people could test 16.04 and 17.10 as well...
> 
> 16.04 not working

Darn

> qml: MapWidget.qml: cannot find a plugin named: googlemaps
> qrc:/MapWidget.qml:25:2: QML Map: Error: Plugin does not support mapping.
> Error message:The geoservices provider is not supported.
> qrc:/MapWidget.qml:21: Error: Cannot assign [undefined] to
> QDeclarativeGeoMapType*

So why did this work in 17.04? Or am I seeing a false positive? I never manually installed google maps in that VM...

> And indeed the plugin is not within the installation package. You'll
> need to add a file called dirs in debian directory and list the
> directories where this plugin is to be installed in there.
> 
> ---8<---
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/geoservices
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Location
> ---8<---

So I need debian/dirs with just those two directories? Why those two and no others?
I guess I still have no idea how Debian packaging actually works :-(

/D