One day KeePassXC just stopped running. I click on icon, there is boot process and then nothing. I tried to start it from terminal and I get the error:
ERROR: not connected to the kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20 content interface.
What does it mean? Literally, yesterday, I could still use it. Am I need to do something like that:
sudo snap connect kdenlive:kde-frameworks-5-plug kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20:kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20-slot
I have keepass database on google drive. Is it possible to bind it to keepassxc (ver 2.5.4) on ubuntu (now i updated to focal). I can reach google drive with nautilus, but i do not see it from Keepass when try to open base.
I spent about a day and a half working through all the various and mostly out of date KeePass option for Ubuntu (Kubuntu). I want to share what I've found and ask for other answers regarding the many approaches and defunct options.
First I wanted to collect the relevant question from this site, several of which are almost a decade old. These are ordered by most votes as that seems to be what Google uses and where I landed first was the top one.
Let me explain my path so far.. Starting in Windows, loved this simple yet powerful lightweight password manager. Never connected it to the web, but kept the DB file inside a Vercrypt container. I was using LastPass because of its good entry field recognition for saving new PWs and the mobile use for $12/yr. Then they doubled the price, and recently again, until its $40/year now.
I have been using KeePasXC on Kubuntu 18.04, because after searching around I thought I might want the browser integration, and it seems to work okay, but I kept searching for the synchronize databases or remove duplicates functions. Its just that XC doesnt have these standard KP features. I dont know why because I believe the KP source code is freely available. Anyway, recently I finally ditched LP and moved to KeePass2Android, which works remarkably well. It syncs to all kinds of cloud services, so I put all the non-important accounts I had in LP into a KP DB and onto Google Drive. (btw, to convert LP to KP, use this field sequence 6,5,2,3,1,4,7).
Now Ive been needing to setup a desktop browser integration using the same db file on Google drive. So searched through all the various forms of KP, KPx, KPxc, KPrpc, Kee, KeeVault and a number of others. Tusk seemed to have the most reviews on the Chrome Store and it does connect with a shared GDrive file. However, it doesnt ask to save any passwords. Plus I really needed a editor that would sync, to delete a few entries I dont want in the cloud anymore. So, I found a plugin for GDrive, but KPxc doesnt use plugins. Too bad because KPxc does have ask to save. The response suggested I use the gdrive-org client, however it appears to no longer connect with error "Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app..This app has not been verified yet by Google in order to use Google Sign In." from Google. Other sync clients I tried like grive, have the same error.
So I went back to trying to get the plugins to work again with the error "The plugin cannot be loaded a newer .NET framework is required". Trying mono-complete, wine64 (which has wine32), winetricks with dotnet 4.5, msitools for wine. I tried installing the gsync plugin, tried adding the log4net.dll, read other exhausting and possible fixes, tracked down the error, tried all those fixes. In one of those I found a solution to use Dolphin's network connection to sync the db file, but it had some caveats that are not so smooth. I still couldnt get KP on wine or mono to connect to a cloud.
Reading the official KP documentation, it seems the remote file URl was built mainly for Dropbox. And because the GDrive sync client werent working I pursued DBox. Still couldnt get KP to connect, and even Tusk was failing to connect to it. So back to KPxc, but it turns out because Im using portable Chrome installations in Veracrypt volumes which close automatically on powercut, it wasnt finding the 'proxy' to connect the browser). I very nearly gave up and paid for KeeVault, which is at a noble price point, but read some reviews first and they reminded me how much I dislike trusting a 3rd party for data storage. Granted Gdrive isnt much better, but I will fight using Dbox tooth an nail because their breach exposes several of my email addresses which have led to phishing attacks. At least GDrive is erring on the side of caution per their error message.
Finally, Ive resolved to manually syncing the db file after editing and all I want is a browser integration that asks to save. It turns out that Kee without using KeeVault but using KPrpc which finally has a plugin that works with mono-complete, and has ask-to-save.
So if I've missed any options that fulfil the requirements I've stated, or that does allow syncing to a remote db file automatically on change, please let me know. I see regular KP does have 'triggers' which would start such an action, but if there are no GDrive clients which currently connect, Im at a loss. I did find rclone, which has many cloud config options, and I believe may connect to GDrive, but would need to write a script to integrate them. After all KeePass2Android can connect to GDrive, and it even has an option to only authenticate a connection to a single folder in DBox instead of the whole drive.
Apparently, the following from the other question/answers above are currently unmaintained: Tusk, ChromeIPass, PasslFox.. KeePassHttp may still work, its still in the Chrome Store.
KeePass with KeePassRPC plugin installation is best summed up here: https://askubuntu.com/a/291309/795299 probably derived from here.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jtaylor/keepass
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install keepass2 mono-complete
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/keepass2/plugins
sudo apt install curl
sudo apt install jq
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kee-org/keepassrpc/releases/latest | jq -r ".assets[] | select(.name | test(\"KeePassRPC.plgx\")) | .browser_download_url" | xargs sudo curl -s -L -o "/usr/lib/keepass2/plugins/KeePassRPC.plgx"
A couple final notes:
Ubuntu 18.04. KeepassXC installed via flatpak. I added it to the startup list, using filepath
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.desktop
but it will not startup on boot. It does start quicker than normal when I manually launch it, so I suspect it's just not showing up in the system tray as it should.
Not sure what other data to provide. I do have various gnome extension installed but I'm not sure of the most efficient way to provide those short of typing out all 15 of them. If it's beneficial, please let me know of a concise/efficient method of exporting that list.
A year ago, I installed KeepassXC to manage my passwords. I don't remember I installed though. Today I went on the official web page to check if new versions were available and found that there were upgrades available. When I tried to upgrade it
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade keepassxc
I got
E: Unable to locate package keepassxc
So I installed it though the repository but I have now 2 keepassxc installations.
My question is how do I remove the old version without also removing the newest one.
Here are the answers to the requests in the comments below:
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.42.1 8039 stable canonical✓ core
core18 0.1 19 stable canonical✓ base
gtk-common-themes 0.1-16-g2287c87 1198 stable canonical✓ -
htmldoc 1.9.7 283 stable michaelrsweet -
keepassxc 2.3.4 49 stable keepassxreboot -
nmap 7.12SVN-0.6 29 stable maxiberta -
notepad-plus-plus 7.6.4 193 stable mmtrt -
shotcut 19.10.20 55 stable meltytech✓ classic
simplescreenrecorder 0.1 1 stable xiaoguo -
skype 8.30.0.50 54 stable skype✓ classic
slack 4.1.2 19 stable slack✓ classic
stellarium-plars 0.18.1 29 stable pwlars -
wine-platform 3.0.4-4.0 88 stable mmtrt -
dpkg -l keepass*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii keepassxc 2.5.1-0ppa1~ amd64 KeePass Cross-Platform Community
un keepassxc-beta <none> <none> (no description available)
Regards