Task Coach has not been packaged correctly for 20.04-based systems and
needs some work. I wish this were fixed or the hacky workarounds documented
better, but see https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+question/690591
where several of us were able to do workarounds and get it to function.
I have gotten it installed myself on 20.04 (KDE Neon derivative of Ubuntu).
It involves getting the right dependencies, forcing a dpkg install, and
then clearing some temporary files that complain about other missing
dependencies.
Please let me know if you get it to work. Maybe document step by step what
you try so we could end up with a simpler list of steps once you get it to
work.
If you otherwise know about packaging and could possibly help with some
containerized system like flatpak or appimage or something (or know anyone
else who does know), we could use help. That would be the medium-term
solution better than this awful workaround.
Status: accepted Version: Release_1.4 Labels: bug Created: Sun Nov 29, 2020 04:50 AM UTC by Mathew Alexander Last Updated: Sun Nov 29, 2020 04:50 AM UTC Owner: Aaron Wolf
Task Coach has not been packaged correctly for 20.04-based systems and needs some work. I wish this were fixed or the hacky workarounds documented better, but see https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+question/690591 where several of us were able to do workarounds and get it to function.
I have gotten it installed myself on 20.04 (KDE Neon derivative of Ubuntu).
It involves getting the right dependencies, forcing a dpkg install, and then clearing some temporary files that complain about other missing dependencies.
Please let me know if you get it to work. Maybe document step by step what you try so we could end up with a simpler list of steps once you get it to work.
If you otherwise know about packaging and could possibly help with some containerized system like flatpak or appimage or something (or know anyone else who does know), we could use help. That would be the medium-term solution better than this awful workaround.
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then edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and delete the dependencies that were causing task coach to block other apt actions.
(search for the line: "Depends: python (>= 2.6), python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0), python-wxversion, python-twisted (>= 10.0), libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils, python-igraph" )
So change this to: "Depends: python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0), python-wxversion, libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils"
sudo apt install --fix-broken**
Next step is to tell TaskCoach to use python2:
~$ sudo xed /usr/bin/taskcoach.py
edit the 1st line by adding '2' at the end
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I had the same problem Task Coach not being in the packages on Kubuntu 20.04 and not being able install it anyway. So I created an AppImage. Try it out if it works ok for you.
Hi, excited to tell you that https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach now
has updated Python3 Task Coach packages for Debian and Ubuntu based
systems, you can try the AppImage, but I'm using the .deb options and
everything is working for me. Give it a try and report bugs there, cheers!
Status: closed Version: Release_1.4 Labels: bug Created: Sun Nov 29, 2020 04:50 AM UTC by Mathew Alexander Last Updated: Fri Jan 01, 2021 05:21 PM UTC Owner: Aaron Wolf
Hi, excited to tell you that https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach now has updated Python3 Task Coach packages for Debian and Ubuntu based systems, you can try the AppImage, but I'm using the .deb options and everything is working for me. Give it a try and report bugs there, cheers!
Mint is Ubuntu-based so it should work fine
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Task coach not installing of Linux Mint Focal Fossa
Thank you so much, Aaron. Will try and let you know how it goes..
Mathew
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, 10:50 am Aaron Wolf, wolftune@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
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#539Task Coach has not been packaged correctly for 20.04-based systems and needs some work. I wish this were fixed or the hacky workarounds documented better, but see https://answers.launchpad.net/taskcoach/+question/690591 where several of us were able to do workarounds and get it to function.
I have gotten it installed myself on 20.04 (KDE Neon derivative of Ubuntu).
It involves getting the right dependencies, forcing a dpkg install, and then clearing some temporary files that complain about other missing dependencies.
Please let me know if you get it to work. Maybe document step by step what you try so we could end up with a simpler list of steps once you get it to work.
If you otherwise know about packaging and could possibly help with some containerized system like flatpak or appimage or something (or know anyone else who does know), we could use help. That would be the medium-term solution better than this awful workaround.
It works for me, using Mint 20
First uninstall Task Coach. Then:
sudo apt install python2
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
sudo pip2 install twisted
sudo pip2 install notify
sudo apt install python-wxgtk3.0
sudo apt install ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra
only after this:
download the latest .deb from https://www.taskcoach.org/download_daily_build.html
sudo dpkg --force-all -i taskcoach_1.4.6.8056-1.deb
then edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and delete the dependencies that were causing task coach to block other apt actions.
(search for the line: "Depends: python (>= 2.6), python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0), python-wxversion, python-twisted (>= 10.0), libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils, python-igraph" )
So change this to: "Depends: python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0), python-wxversion, libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils"
sudo apt install --fix-broken**
Next step is to tell TaskCoach to use python2:
~$ sudo xed /usr/bin/taskcoach.py
edit the 1st line by adding '2' at the end
I had the same problem Task Coach not being in the packages on Kubuntu 20.04 and not being able install it anyway. So I created an AppImage. Try it out if it works ok for you.
https://github.com/fluks/taskcoach-appimage/releases/download/v0.1.0/taskcoach-appimage-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
The script to build is also there with instructions how to build it. Feel free to make the script better.
WOW! Thank you!!!
thank you.
I've installed debian 13, will try TaskCoach
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2025, 01:20 Aaron Wolf, wolftune@users.sourceforge.net
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#539Hi, excited to tell you that https://github.com/taskcoach/taskcoach now has updated Python3 Task Coach packages for Debian and Ubuntu based systems, you can try the AppImage, but I'm using the .deb options and everything is working for me. Give it a try and report bugs there, cheers!
Mint is Ubuntu-based so it should work fine