Hi Hilko, I don't know if you pay attention to or even care about Ubuntu bugs. I subscribe to ones that involve libguestfs, and one here [see below] involves libguestfs packaging in Debian/Ubuntu. Unfortunately Ubuntu LTS has settled on a really old version of libguestfs too ... Rich. ----- Forwarded message from Maarten Fonville <1157665(a)bugs.launchpad.net&gt; ----- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:12:17 -0000 From: Maarten Fonville <1157665(a)bugs.launchpad.net&gt; To: rjones(a)redhat.com Subject: [Bug 1157665] Re: update-guestfs-appliance & ligbuestfs-test-tool should be included in libguestfs0 ** Changed in: libguestfs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to libguestfs in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: libguestfs bugs in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1157665 Title: update-guestfs-appliance & ligbuestfs-test-tool should be included in libguestfs0 Status in “libguestfs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 libguestfs0: 1:1.18.5-2ubuntu1 In Ubuntu 12.10 the appliance creation script (update-guestfs- appliance) and the libguestfs-test-tool are under libguestfs-tools. I'm not sure this is a right choice. I think they should be under libguestfs0 as they are in Debian. All the applications that use the library should work out of the box when you install them using "apt- get install". For example guestmount has libguestfs0 as a dependency but not liguestfs-tools. If you do: apt-get install guestmount you end up installing a program that does not work: $ guestmount -a debian.raw -m /dev/sda1 --ro /mnt libguestfs: error: cannot find any suitable libguestfs supermin, fixed or old-style appliance on LIBGUESTFS_PATH (search path: /usr/lib/guestfs) And the user needs to manually fix this by either installing libguestfs-tools or downloading a binary appliance. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libguestfs/+bug/1157665/+subscr... ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org