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Xavier-G's avatar
Xavier-G
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

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...
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  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    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.

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20

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's avatar
anonymous
5 years ago

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's avatar
    flabdablet
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    @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 .

      • flabdablet's avatar
        flabdablet
        Helpful | Level 5
        5 years ago

        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.

  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    5 years ago

    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!

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