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Unable to install Dropbox on Ubuntu 20.04
Hi,
With this morning updates on beta version of Ubuntu Focal (20.04), system uninstalled Dropbbox because it updated package libpango.
So I downloaded the new deb package on Dropbox site...
Hi Xavier-G,
The issue comes from fact - corresponding package name seems got changed (probably temporary). As a workaround, ignoring dependencies, you can "install" the package by hand (suppose all needed libraries persist), copy contained files on the corresponding places. :wink:
Good luck.
Hi,
I't not a temporary change. In Debian the package libpango1.0-0 was changed to transitional package in 2013 which depended on libpango-1.0-0 and now the transitional package has been dropped from the archive.
Dropbox should change the dependency to libpango-1.0-0
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/pango/-/blob/debian/master/debian/changelog
@Durin Yes, they absolutely should. But I didn't want to wait around for them, so I used equivs to build and install a temporary replacement for the missing transitional package:
apt install equivs mkdir /tmp/pkg cd /tmp/pkg cat <<EOF >>libpango1.0-0 Package: libpango1.0-0 Version: 1.44.7-4 Depends: libpango-1.0-0 EOF equivs-build libpango1.0-0 apt install ./libpango1.0-0_1.44.7-4_all.deb
apt-mark auto libpango1.0-0after which Dropbox installed without complaint. With any luck, that apt-mark auto will mean that once Dropbox does get its act together and stops depending on packages deprecated seven years ago, apt will clean up all by itself and let me forget I even had to do this .
Indeed the Dropbox team should update the dependencies for the deb packages. For completeness I did attatch two links to debian bug report tool as well as to Mojang (Minecraft) Bug report. One of the debian package maintainers explained the current situation very detailed
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCL-13662
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956520
Best Regards
Hi anonymous,
Yes, You are absolutely right; that what you say is upcoming bug (if Dropbox won't take care, as usual)! Let hope this time the status won't be broken application and after that some action, but... we will see.
Just to note, the topic was about something related (somehow), not the same! So the discussed change is temporary (most probably).
Anyway... Good warning!
https://manjaro.site/install-dropbox-on-ubuntu-19-10/
fix libpango dependancies with
sudo apt-get -f install
Thanks for your help, yes it seems due to a a problem of package name, but it has been identified and should (I hope) been resolved soon :
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/focal-changes/2020-March/016186.html
