Muon package manager can not be installed

[Krzysztof Knapik]

Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' KDE 64-bit

I am unable to install 'muon' package. Running 'apt-get install muon' returns the following:
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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 muon : Depends: libmuonprivate2 (= 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1) but it is not going to be installed
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When I install 'mint-configuration-kde' package i can then install 'muon' (no dependency problem occurs). This is possible because mint-conifugation-kde will result in removin 'mintsources' package. Unfortunately if I make this due to missing mintsources package the add-apt-repository command will stop working correctly. It will fail every time with aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException error when trying to add a PPA repo.

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

I confirm that muon is not installable. It requires software-properties-kde - but mintsources conflicts with software-properties-kde.

As for mint-configuration-kde, I find it already installed in Mint 17 KDE, and it does NOT conflict with mintsources. Maybe you meant some other package instead?

[Krzysztof Knapik (knapsu)]

Yes, mint-configuration-kde is installed and not in conflict with mintsources as you have wrote. Shouldn't mint-configuration-kde be replacing software-properties-kde package?

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

Hi,

mintsources conflicts with software-properties and that conflict is explicitly described to APT. That's ok.

mintsources doesn't provide the functionality given by software-properties though, so if something like Muon depends on it, it is normal for that package not to be installable.

Although I don't recommend it, you can remove mintsources and proceed to install Muon and software-properties. You just have to choose between one tech or the other though, you can't have both installed on the same machine.

[Krzysztof Knapik (knapsu)]

Hi,

As I said removing mintsources will break add-apt-repository command and I want to avoid it.

In Mint 16 mintsources are installed along with with muon without any problems. I don't understand why in LTS release this is broken.

Why is mintsources blocking software-properties? What do you suggest?

Muon is a package manager for KDE, a great replacement for Synaptic and its weaknesses. Disallowing to install it in KDE is just wrong.

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

The original add-apt-repository tool is available in software-properties-common package.

[Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre)]

You're allowed to install it, you just need to remove mintsources first. Mintsources conflicts with software-properties specifically because they both provide that same add-apt-repository command.

[Krzysztof Knapik (knapsu)]

Because Mint developers are not planning to fix Muon package please feel free to use below method to overcome this limitation:

1) Fix mintsources package

download deb package with 'apt-get download mintsources'
unpack deb with 'ar x mintsources_1.3.4_all.deb'
unpack control archive with 'tar xzf control.tar.gz'
fix dependencies in 'control' file by editing it with 'nano control' and removing line "Conflicts: software-properties-gtk, software-properties-kde"
repack control archive with 'tar c control | gzip -c > control.tar.gz'
repack deb with 'ar rcs mintsources_fixed.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.xz'

2) After creating the package we need to install everyting (order is important)

remove existing mintsources with 'sudo dpkg -r mintsources'
install muon with 'sudo apt-get install muon'
install mintsources from our customized package with 'sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite mintsources_fixed.deb'

3) Prevent our modifications from being overwritten
lock installed mintsources package with 'sudo apt-mark hold mintsources'
lock installed muon package with 'sudo apt-mark hold muon'

Finally we can have Muon and apt-apt-repository working at the same time!