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Ximi1970 / systray-x

SysTray-X: A system tray extension for Thunderbird. Needs both the addon AND the companion app installed to work. Will not work with TB flatpaks or snaps.
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Cannot install it on MX #67

Closed GeorgeKaragiannis closed 3 years ago

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

Hello, I have a problem with the installation. What can I do to fix it?

Thunderbird: 68.12.0 (64bit)

Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo February 15 2020 Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2

The problem: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done **Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: systray-x-minimal : Depends: thunderbird (<= 1:84) but 2:68.12.0-1mx19+1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.**

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

Have a look here: https://github.com/Ximi1970/systray-x/issues/61#issuecomment-735898689

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

@Ximi1970 So, the problem is that I have an old version (68) and I need the new one (78)?

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

No, someone at MX thought he was smart and started to use epoch number 2 for the Thunderbird package. (probably because they made some major modification to it) and it is just impossible to create 1 Debian package that will accept epoch 1 (Debian) and epoch 2 (MX) Thunderbird dependencies.
I also do not have access to a build service to create a special MX packages.
Thunderbird is already a software mess and if MX is also changing things in TB it gets really complicated. That is the reason I will not support MX directly.
You need to use the workaround I mentioned.
It should also work with a Debian 1:68.x.x version if you can find one.

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

@Ximi1970 Thank you again. One last thing. MX linux boots with the sysVinit init system by default, but if you want, there is the option to start it with the systemd, so you can choose. Is this "epoch number" has to do anything with this? If I chose systemd, will it work or it doesn't matter?

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

The epoch package version number is a "choice" of the Thunderbird MX package maintainer and normally should not be incremented unless really needed to prevent dependency problems or mark a major change in the package.
You or I cannot change anything to make it "right" or undo the epoch version number of the MX Thunderbird package except for creating your own Thunderbird package with epoch version number 1. Or make a MX package for SysTray-X with a dependency on Thunderbird 2:68.x.x to 2:85.x.x.

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

Thank you very much!