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Pings => Otter Browser Forum => Topic started by: pccobbler on 2019-02-15, 23:17:39

Title: DEB file for Otter
Post by: pccobbler on 2019-02-15, 23:17:39
Is there any chance of having a DEB file created instead of using PPA to install Otter? I realize the Otter PPA is relatively safe, but I never use PPA. I'm using Linux Mint, but this would be relevant to any Ubuntu spin.
Title: Re: DEB file for Otter
Post by: Frenzie on 2019-02-17, 20:00:13
If you click through on the PPA website a little you can also download the packages without using the PPA mechanism. E.g., here (https://launchpad.net/~otter-browser/+archive/ubuntu/release/+build/16221206).

Btw @Emdek it says around there (https://code.launchpad.net/~otter-browser/otter-browser/master) that the import is failing, presumably because "This branch is an import of the HEAD branch of the Git repository at https://github.com/Emdek/otter.git." (which is apparently not auto-redirected to the now proper organization URL).
Title: Re: DEB file for Otter
Post by: pccobbler on 2019-02-18, 16:33:19
@Frnze

Thanks for the reply. I should have tried that. Yes, there's a DEB file there, just what I wanted.
Title: Re: DEB file for Otter
Post by: pccobbler on 2019-02-18, 16:47:48
Oops, I spoke too soon.

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libhunspell-1.6-0

Linux Mint is unable to find libhunspell.
Title: Re: DEB file for Otter
Post by: Frenzie on 2019-02-19, 06:02:55
@pccobbler I linked to the one for Bionic (18.04) which I figured should be most widely compatible, but there are also packages for 18.10 and 19.04 (which seems to use libhunspell-1.7-0 instead).

https://launchpad.net/~otter-browser/+archive/ubuntu/release

If your Mint is pre-18.04 it might be a little harder.
Title: Re: DEB file for Otter
Post by: pccobbler on 2019-02-19, 17:17:53
I'm running an updated version of Sylvia, built a week ago.

I tried otter-browser_1.0.01-1~disco~ppa1_amd64.deb, but it complained about libhunspell-1.7-0. Linux Mint does not know how to install libhunspell.

At least it's not as bad as Brave, the online instructions of which completely hosed update.

I purged otter-browser because I don't like having things half-installed. Thanks for your help, but I will wait until Otter is officially released.