deb packages depend on leptonica, not libleptonica about python-tesseract HOT 8 CLOSED

This brings more problems than just installing.
APT says I have both python-tesseract and tesseract-ocr packages broken because 
the leptonica dependency, and even the system update wants to remove these 
packages because of it.
Running linux mint 12

You're right actually, this is not a good solution. But it shows that the 
packages *could* easily depend on the stock libleptonica package and work.

What I ended up doing was patching the debs provided here to depend on 
libleptonica rather than leptonica.

To do that, run the following commands for each .deb file (replacing 
packagename below with the package name):

#extract package contents
dpkg-deb -x pkgname.deb pkgname;
#extract CONTROL file from deb
dpkg-deb --control pkgname.deb pkgname/DEBIAN;
#replace leptonica dependency with libleptonica
sed -i "s/leptonica/libleptonica (>= 1\.68)/g" pkgname/DEBIAN/control;
#rebuild package with correct dependencies
dpkg -b pkgname pkgname.deb;

that will give you nice deb packages depending on libleptonica rather than 
leptonica

Works like a charm. Thanks a lot!

Interesting workaround...

Anyhow, I have fixed the problem. 

Thanks anyway

Interesting workaround...

Anyhow, I have fixed the problem. 

Thanks anyway

Interesting workaround...

Anyhow, I have fixed the problem. 

Thanks anyway

Interesting workaround...

Anyhow, I have fixed the problem. 

Thanks anyway

Tesseract-ocr is now included in the download list
http://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract/downloads/list