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mintsources: Dependency problem when installing muon. #52

Closed VaGNaroK closed 4 years ago

VaGNaroK commented 4 years ago

when installing muon a dependency error occurs and does not install, either through the terminal or the program center. Is it not in the repository or has it been blocked?

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as not being able to install an alternative package manager is a bit frustrating.

enigma131 commented 4 years ago

Please provide result in english via command: LC_ALL=C sudo apt install muon. seams you have a dependency problem with software-properties-qt.

VaGNaroK commented 4 years ago

I will install mint 20 beta in an English language vm and try to install muon again. anything return. since the tests I'm doing on a production machine.

xenopeek commented 4 years ago

You won't be able to install muon just yet. It depends on a package version incompatible with what Mint requires and overriding that may cause other things to break.

VaGNaroK commented 4 years ago

I just installed the system on a VM and updated the apt cache, if I even search for the package it shows how installable, but ... it doesn't install.

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"You won't be able to install muon just yet. It depends on a package version incompatible with what Mint requires and overriding that may cause other things to break.".

Do you intend to correct this before the final version?

smurphos commented 4 years ago

Just some investigation into the cause of this.

muon depends on software-properties-qt, which in turn depends on a specific version of python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9). The latter is in the Ubuntu repos, but is also shipped by the Mint repos with a higher priority.

The version Mint ships is 2.0.1 - this is a dummy package because mintsources does the job that this package does in ubuntu.

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

You can you use the following workaround to install muon:

apt install python3-software-properties=0.98.9
apt install muon

Can you test muon like this and see if everything is OK? I don't mind freeing the python library, I'm just a bit concerned about software-properties-common which contains a DBUS service.

If muon can work with software-properties-common 2.0.1 then we're OK.

VaGNaroK commented 4 years ago

python3-software-properties=0.98.9

It worked perfect with your tip. Of course, this method is already good, if it reduces the time you will lose to pack and maintain a dependency, this way will solve it. But it would be good to put these steps for installing the muon with python3-software-properties = 0.98.9 on the site somewhere to help anyone who will install the muon (as was my case).

clefebvre commented 4 years ago

No, we can do better. We can free these packages, that way it'll just work out of the box. If that works fine we don't need to pin these.