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Asked: 2020-08-26 07:03:09 +0800 CST

pantheon-files depends on libhandy-1-0 but it is not installable on Ubuntu 20.04

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I am getting dependency error while installing pantheon-files

$ sudo apt install pantheon-files
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:
 pantheon-files : Depends: libhandy-1-0 (>= 0.82.0) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: exfat-fuse but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: tumbler-plugins-extra but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ sudo apt-cache policy pantheon-files
pantheon-files:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.5.0+r4099+pkg96~daily~ubuntu6.0.1
  Version table:
     4.5.0+r4099+pkg96~daily~ubuntu6.0.1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/daily/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
software-installation 20.04 pantheon

4 Answers

  1. I copied the source package from Ubuntu 20.10, and rebuilt it for Ubuntu 20.04 in this PPA. I have also enabled builds for armhf, arm64 and ppc64el

    To use it, enter the following commands

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apandada1/libhandy-1
sudo apt-get update

    Now you can install libhandy-1-0 with the command

    sudo apt install libhandy-1-0

    I have checked that the build works, by using it as a dependency for Blanket PPA.

    Update: I have backported the recently released version 1.0.0 to the PPA.

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  2. Best Answer

    Focal Fossa (20.04) has libhandy-0.0-0 instead and libhandy-1-0 is in Groovy Gorilla (20.10) which is still in development stage. However, you can download and install the deb file for libhandy-1-0 on 20.04 using

    wget http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libh/libhandy-1/libhandy-1-0_0.90.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libhandy-1-0_0.90.0-1_amd64.deb

    Once done retry installation of Pantheon Files.

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  3. Another option that works very well for me is to install the one that was last built by Ubuntu for Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy), as found in their official PPA in here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/groovy/amd64/libhandy-1-0 The last build was: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/groovy/amd64/libhandy-1-0/1.0.0-2 Which is actually downloadable by doing shift+click on the "downloadable files" for the .deb file.

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  4. I got the solution, Actually, the Last answer is also working. But I got a new solution as well.

    we are missing some dependency. We need to install those first and restart pc Again try to install this file package. Now, you can see the color change on right-click

    I am sharing commands bellow. But make sure, you check for the latest file first.

    At first, you need to enable universe repository with

    sudo add-apt-repository universe

    and then you can manually download and install a newer version of the library with

    cd ~/Downloads wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libcloudproviders/libcloudproviders0_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb

    sudo apt install ./libcloudproviders0_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb

    and then install pantheon-files with

    Sudo apt-get install pantheon-files

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