Installing on Linux Mint 20 / Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
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I noticed that autotrash is not in the Ubuntu 20.04LTS/focal package repo (but in e.g. bionic). Is it because of your new packaging approach, and shouldn't the Installation section in README be updated to reflect this?
I'm not really sure what you mean yet. Could you elaborate on these points?
Is there a way to change the packaging approach to also end up in bionic?
Okay, I'll try and elaborate on that. Please note that I hardly know anything about packaging etc.
So I installed autotrash back on Linux Mint 19, but the upgrade to Linux Mint 20 meant switching to a newer Ubuntu package base, i.e. focal. In that package base, autotrash_ is no longer available. I uninstalled it for a safe upgrade, but now I can't easily reinstall using the package manager.
Looking at this repository, I concluded that you, @bneijt, are not in charge of packaging. This page suggests that the package maintainers are Ubuntu MOTU Developers or rather Lorenzo De Liso. So should I ask them/him instead?
Is there a way to change the packaging approach to also end up in bionic?
I'm not sure if I understood that correctly. I don't think it's a huge deal to update the .deb package to install autotrash in its new, modular form. But somebody has to do it. Preferably the one who did it last time.
So I guess I should contact Lorenzo De Liso directly?
@bneijt
I have the same issue. My system is Linux Mint 20, and it is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. When I run
sudo apt-get install autotrash I get an error and it's
Package autotrash is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'autotrash' has no installation candidate
How could I fix it?
If you want to install it via the package repository of your distribution, you will have to find a maintainer there to package and distribute it. @NicoWeio is right in that I don't have access or rights to publish packages in the different distributions.
For now, you could use pip install autotrash to install an executable in ~/.local/bin for your user.
Let me know if that work-around works and if you want it to be part of the Ubuntu distribution, consider opening a ticket there.
I'm closing this issue due to lack of progress and the actual freature request being out of scope. I have added a packaging directory, so feel free to add linux mint package build scripts in a mint directory below the packaging directory if you feel so inclined.