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Asked: 2018-06-07 11:54:31 +0800 CST

How to install k9copy on Ubuntu 18.04?

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I am trying to install k9copy but I get the following issue:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libav-tools

If I perform sudo apt-get install libav-tools I get the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libav-tools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  ffmpeg:i386 ffmpeg

E: Package 'libav-tools' has no installation candidate

I already have FFmpeg installed (from the repositories) and there doesn't seem to be any guides online for how to resolve this.

software-installation dependencies

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As has been pointed out by doug it is still possible to use an 'unofficial' deb package for k9copy-reloaded (rather than the long defunct k9copy) under Bionic Beaver. Compiling from source would be another option but the benefits of compiling such an older application would probably not outweigh the considerable hassle.

    Install this as follows:

    wget http://tomtomtom.org/k9copy-reloaded/k9copy_3.0.3-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i k9copy_3.0.3-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

    This installed well enough on my Bionic Beaver installation but to find the application in the Ubuntu 'Finder' some tweaks to the 2 desktop files are required (thanks to cipricus for the detective work!).

    1. Fix for the k9copy desktop file:

      sudo sed -i_bak 's|Exec=k9copy -caption|Exec=k9copy|' \
     /usr/share/applications/k9copy.desktop

    2. Fix for the k9copy assistant desktop file:

      sudo sed -i_bak 's|Exec=k9copy --assistant -caption|Exec=k9copy --assistant|' \
     /usr/share/applications/k9copy_assistant.desktop

    And now all should be well. Gratuitous screenshot below:

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  2. The other answer here doesn't really work anymore for installing k9copy on 18.10, but there's an easier solution: there's an actually maintained (as of this writing) PPA at https://launchpad.net/~tomtomtom/+archive/ubuntu/k9copy.

    In Ubuntu 18.10 open the terminal and type:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/k9copy
sudo apt update
sudo apt install k9copy
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