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34 changes: 31 additions & 3 deletions scripts/ubuntu/1.2-install-additional-dependencies.sh
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Expand Up @@ -26,10 +26,38 @@ print_start_of_script

print_script_step "Install additional dependencies"

# First, ensure all dev packages are up to date to match installed library versions
# Ensure <codename>-updates is present in apt sources.
# On minimal Ubuntu images (e.g. Raspberry Pi), the sources file may only contain
# <codename> and <codename>-security. Security point releases update runtime libraries
# (libmount1, zlib1g, libpcre2-8-0, etc.) to patch versions (e.g. -9ubuntu6.4), but the
# matching -dev packages that accept those versions only exist in <codename>-updates.
# Without this repo, apt-get satisfy fails with "held broken packages" when resolving
# transitive -dev dependencies for libgstreamer1.0-dev.
print_script_step "Ensuring <codename>-updates apt repository is configured"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs)
SOURCES_FILE="/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources"
if [ -f "$SOURCES_FILE" ] && grep -q "^Suites:" "$SOURCES_FILE"; then
if ! grep -q "${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-updates" "$SOURCES_FILE"; then
sudo sed -i -E "/^Suites:.*\b${UBUNTU_CODENAME}\b([^-]|$)/ s/$/ ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-updates/" "$SOURCES_FILE"
fi
fi
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update || \
echo "Warning: apt-get update encountered errors, proceeding with existing package index"

# First, ensure all dev packages are up to date to match installed library versions.
# apt-get upgrade in the previous step may update runtime libraries (libmount1, libzstd1,
# libpcre2-8-0, libselinux1, zlib1g) to security-patch point releases (e.g. -9ubuntu6.4)
# while their -dev counterparts remain at the pre-upgrade version. This causes
# "held broken packages" errors when apt-get satisfy tries to install libgstreamer1.0-dev
# and its transitive -dev dependencies (which carry strict = version constraints).
# Upgrading all affected -dev packages first realigns them with the runtime libraries.
print_script_step "Updating development packages to match installed library versions"
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get update
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --only-upgrade -y libmount-dev libzstd-dev libblkid-dev || true
sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --only-upgrade -y \
libmount-dev libblkid-dev \
libzstd-dev \
libpcre2-dev \
libselinux1-dev \
zlib1g-dev || true

readarray -t packagelist < "$UBUNTU_SCRIPT_DIR/additional-dependency-list.txt"

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