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Xavier-G
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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...
- 5 years ago
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.
anonymous
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
flabdablet
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
@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 libpango1.0-0
after 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 .
- N3m3si55 years agoNew member | Level 2
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
- flabdablet5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Dropbox seems to work just fine with the quick and dirty transitional package I built with equivs, so it doesn't seem like it actually does depend on any of the libraries formerly bundled in the long-deprecated libpango1.0-0 package other than libpango-1.0-0 itself. That *should* make the change required inside Dropbox's own deb package completely trivial; just adding the - to the dependency should be all that needs to be done.
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