I'm trying to install taskcoach on Ubuntu 20.04. It requires python2 and some other python2 dependencies.

I've tried to following the advices I've found at this link:

but no success.

These are the steps I tried:

#install python 2
sudo apt install python2
#install pip (2)
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python2
curl --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
pip2 --version
#install dependencies
sudo pip2 install twisted
sudo pip2 install notify
#Download taskcoach_1.4.6-1.deb
#editing /var/lib/dpkg/status and deleting those two dependencies from the Taskcoach package
kate /var/lib/dpkg/status
#original line is: Depends: python (>= 2.6), python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0), python-wxversion, python-twisted (>= 10.0), libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils, python-igraph
new line I put is: Depends: python (>= 2.6), libxss1, ttf-dejavu, xdg-utils
sudo dpkg --force-all -i taskcoach_1.4.6-1.deb

I still get the following error:

sudo dpkg --force-all -i taskcoach_1.4.6-1.deb (Reading database ... 283484 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack taskcoach_1.4.6-1.deb ... Unpacking taskcoach (1.4.6-1) over (1.4.6-1) ... dpkg: taskcoach: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested: taskcoach depends on python-wxgtk3.0 (>= 3.0.0.0); however: Package python-wxgtk3.0 is not installed. taskcoach depends on python-wxversion; however: Package python-wxversion is not installed. taskcoach depends on python-twisted (>= 10.0); however: Package python-twisted is not installed. taskcoach depends on python-igraph; however: Package python-igraph is not installed. Setting up taskcoach (1.4.6-1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...

Basically the /var/lib/dpkg/status for some reason gets recreated with the old dependencies when I try to install that package..

Any hints?

1 Answer

It clearly states it depends on those packages, then why do you change the status file? The dependent packages should be added to fix this.

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