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Santhosh Dhaipule Chandrakanth
Asked: 2019-09-23 07:06:31 +0800 CST

Unable to install kde connect on lubuntu [duplicate]

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System info

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

Tried building kde connect from source

after i run 

sudo apt-get build-dep kdeconnect

i get 

Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 builddeps:kdeconnect : Depends: libqca2-plugin-ossl but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Tried installing from

  1. How to Use KDE Connect with MATE on Ubuntu and Debian
  2. Install KDE Connect in Ubuntu 18.04
  3. How to install KDE connect in ubuntu 17.04?

All the mentioned unable to launch kde connect indicator or kde connect

Please guide

lubuntu 18.04 kde-connect

1 Answers

  1. I suppose that you forgot to add universe repository. The kdeconnect package is located in it in all current Ubuntu versions.

    You have to:

    1. add the repository with sudo add-apt-repository universe
    2. install KDE Connect with sudo apt-get install kdeconnect
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