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ulidtko
Asked: 2017-11-09 05:59:17 +0800 CST

Did Quickly die? How do I get it?

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Here's the (obscenely obsolete, as always) wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly

It tells me to apt-get install quickly. Okay:

$ sudo apt install quickly
...
E: Unable to locate package quickly

https://packages.ubuntu.com/quickly -- shows any signs of life in Trusty 14.04LTS only.
I'm on Xenial:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial

Didn't even tried the thing once. So sad!

Perhaps there's a PPA or something with newer builds?.. Anyone aware of any developments going on with Quickly?

16.04

2 Answers

  1. Quickly has indeed not been supported for quite some time, and no longer maintained.

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  2. Best Answer
    quickly 393 weeks ago
Successfully built

    Yes, it's dead. You could try to build it from source using the latest version – see How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file? –, but I really doubt the program is useful any more after such a long time.

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