search

keybase / keybase-issues

A single repo for managing publicly recognized issues with the keybase client, installer, and website.
902 stars 37 forks source link

Ubuntu/Debian Install not working #3198

Open foo970 opened 6 years ago

foo970 commented 6 years ago

Ubuntu Machine 1:

curl -O https://prerelease.keybase.io/keybase_amd64.deb
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 79.8M 100 79.8M 0 0 4822k 0 0:00:16 0:00:16 --:--:-- 5569k

sudo dpkg -i keybase_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 301450 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack keybase_amd64.deb ... Unpacking keybase (1.0.44-20180223200436.9a9ccec79) over (1.0.44-20180223200436.9a9ccec79) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of keybase: keybase depends on libappindicator1; however: Package libappindicator1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package keybase (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: keybase

Seemed to be fixed by:

sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get -f install sudo apt-get install libappindicator1 sudo dpkg -i keybase_amd64.deb

junderw commented 6 years ago

This is fine. It explains on the install site that dpkg -i will fail, and you use apt-get -f install to fix it.

There is no need to re-perform dpkg -i on the deb again.

After apt-get -f install, just run run_keybase in the terminal to start up keybase