Since Devuan-Ascii is a fork of Debian 9, it is assumed that the owncloud-client_2.4.3 client amd64 downloaded from the Owncloud clients webpage for DEBIAN 9 would properly install on a Devuan-Ascii amd64 install.
Actual behaviour
Client does NOT install on Devuan-Ascii and emits the following errors:
Unpacking owncloud-client:amd64 (2.4.3+oc-10035) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of owncloud-client:amd64:
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on libowncloudsync0 (= 2.4.3+oc-10035); however:
Package libowncloudsync0 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5concurrent5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5concurrent5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5core5a; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5core5a is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5dbus5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5dbus5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5gui5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5gui5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5keychain1; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5keychain1 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5network5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5network5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5webkit5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5webkit5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5widgets5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5widgets5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5xml5; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5xml5 is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on owncloud-client-l10n; however:
Package owncloud-client-l10n is not installed.
owncloud-client:amd64 depends on ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5-sqlite; however:
Package ocqt562+240-libqt5sql5-sqlite is not installed.
This install of Devuan has KDE5/Plasma and thus should have all qt5 libraries installed. If Devuan/Ascii is a true fork of Debian 9, any needed libraries should already be installed and I’m wondering WHY the owncloud debian9 client has these errors…
could it be possible that you just have downloaded the owncloud-client .deb file directly and that you’re trying to install this directly? I don’t think that this will work, from my experience with Debian such an installation way won’t pull/install the additional required dependencies.
For a linux user that doesn’t fear to install a somewhat exotic (sorry) fork, it should be no real problem finding and covering the requirements.
Just my 2 cents.
That would be BAD…Devuan is advertised as being a true fork of Debian, and the Ascii release is supposedly a true fork of Debian 9/Stretch… Guess I’ll hit the Devuan forums and see if that is the
case…
I have a couple of machines that I inherited that have Debian 9 and the Owncloud client installs just fine on those machines, with a simple “dpkg -i Owncloud-Client.deb”…
i think it won’t help you if dpkg is doing something different that you’re expecting it to do.
If i understand the output you had posted initially your system is currently not providing the packages dpkg is expecting to be there and thus the installation aborts.
I think if you just add the repositories from the link down below (linked on owncloud.org) and use an apt-get install owncloud-client your problem is solved instantly.
Problem is fixed… Apparently, unknown to me, the Devuan repos have the current version of the
Owncloud client. Installed via apt-get and alls good now…