[X2Go-User] x2go upgrade issues (packages with unmet dependencies)

[Richard Lucassen]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 13:30:21 +0200
Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:

> > We have this remote desktop (with x2go-server running there):
> > 
> >   * Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
> >   * KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.8
> >   * KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
> >   * Qt Version: 5.12.8
> >   * Kernel Version: 5.4.0-147-generic
> >   * OS Type: 64-bit
> >   * Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
> >   * Memory: 62,8 GiB
> > 
> > During package update we got:
> > 
> >> E:
> >> /var/cache/apt/archives/libx2go-server-perl_4.1.0.4-0~1975~ubuntu20.04.1_all.deb:
> >> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/X2Go::Utils.3pm.gz',
> >> which is also in package libx2go-utils-perl 4.1.0.3-5
> > In particular:
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> 
> You won't be able to upgrade X2Go packages just yet. The new version
> of X2Go Server depends upon KDrive components that are currently
> unreleased, so you'll have X2Go Server subpackages that won't be
> upgradeable. I have to throw out a barrage of other releases to bring
> this into an consistent state, but that will probably not be finished
> until the end of this week or next week (just because it's a lot of
> work and requires a lot of testing and building).

I resolved this issue (Debian testing aka Bookworm) by using the Saimaa
version:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list
deb http://packages.x2go.org/debian bookworm extras saimaa

Maybe this will also do the job for Ubuntu.

R.
-- 
Richard Lucassen <mailinglists at xaq.nl>