#595 .deb does not work on Ubuntu

[Daniel Kolar]

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble-updates main restricted universe multiverse

This is KDE Neon based on Ubuntu 24 LTS per my understanding.

.deb packages downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-gnutella/files/gtk-gnutella/1.3.1/

fails to install:

$ sudo dpkg --install gtk-gnutella_1.3.1-1_amd64-deb13.deb
Unpacking gtk-gnutella (1.3.1-1) over (1.2.3-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk-gnutella:
 gtk-gnutella depends on libgnutls30t64 (>= 3.8.6); however:
  Version of libgnutls30t64:amd64 on system is 3.8.3-1.1ubuntu3.6.

$ sudo dpkg --install gtk-gnutella_1.3.1-1_amd64-deb12.deb
Unpacking gtk-gnutella (1.3.1-1) over (1.3.1-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk-gnutella:
 gtk-gnutella depends on libbinutils (<< 2.40.1); however:
  Version of libbinutils:amd64 on system is 2.42-4ubuntu2.10.

I doubt my system is customized regarding that dependencies.

[Daniel Kolar]

Regarding .xz file, it worked to build it. Steps done:

tar -xf gtk-gnutella-1.3.1.tar.xz
cd
open README* files, it asks to install:
apt list fakeroot debhelper gcc make zlib1g-dev libgnutls28-dev gettext libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev
Among these following was not installed:
sudo apt install debhelper libgnutls28-dev libgtk2.0-dev

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper : Depends: dh-autoreconf (>= 17~) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: dh-strip-nondeterminism (>= 0.028~) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: debugedit but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: dwz (>= 0.12.20190711) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libdebhelper-perl (= 13.14.1ubuntu5) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: po-debconf but it is not going to be installed
 gtk-gnutella : Depends: libbinutils (< 2.40.1) but 2.42-4ubuntu2.10 is to be installed
 libgnutls28-dev : Depends: libgnutls-dane0t64 (= 3.8.3-1.1ubuntu3.6) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libgnutls-openssl27t64 (= 3.8.3-1.1ubuntu3.6) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libidn2-dev but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libp11-kit-dev but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libtasn1-6-dev but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: nettle-dev (>= 3.6) but it is not going to be installed
 libgtk2.0-dev : Depends: gir1.2-gtk-2.0 (= 2.24.33-4ubuntu1.1) but it is not going to be installed

sudo apt --fix-broken install

Correcting dependencies...Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 1
Investigating (0) gtk-gnutella:amd64 < 1.3.1-1 @iU K Nb Ib >
Broken gtk-gnutella:amd64 Depends on libbinutils:amd64 < 2.42-4ubuntu2.10 @ii K > (< 2.40.1)
  Removing gtk-gnutella:amd64 because I can't find libbinutils:amd64
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gtk-gnutella

Then repeating the command:
sudo apt install debhelper libgnutls28-dev libgtk2.0-dev

installed new packages. Then being in the "gtk-gnutella-1.3.1" directory, run:

fakeroot debian/rules binary
cd .. && sudo dpkg --install gtk-gnutella*.deb

Now the app launches.