Diodon is not installing its dependencies nor making it executable

[invernosantigos]

   Diodon is now having different faults, at least on Linux Mint 20. When reinstalled it cannot be launched -- Because, I noticed, its installation is not installing zeitgeist, nor zeitgeist-datahub, only zeitgeist-core, despite both being in its dependency list in Synaptic -- it's worth remembering that package installations do not follow the Synaptic dependency list, but the one built into the package; so of course there is a packaging error. And Diodon launcher in /usr/share/applications folder has no executable permissions, nor user permissions, even when installed per user. Only root permissions, and administrator and only start with sudo. It keeps requiring "screen -d -m diodon" to start stably without closing on its own when terminating the terminal. When reinstalled, it is mandatory to purge the zeitgeist-core, or it comes back with the same defects as before. And changing the permissions manually on /usr/share/applications is mandatory.

[Oliver Sauder (sao)]

Sorry that you still have problems running Diodon. What you are describing is not a packaging issue because zeitgeist-core is enough for Diodon to run (I on my machine also do not have zeitgeist nor zeitgeist-datahub installed). And the desktop files also do not need executable rights, only the executable /usr/bin/diodon does.

The question where we discussed this seemed to have closed automatically. I am closing this issue so we can focus the discussion of this issue in one thread, at https://answers.launchpad.net/diodon/+question/700019 so if you have more details please add it there.