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Topic: How to install otter on Debian testing. (Read 851 times)

How to install otter on Debian testing.

There is some packkaging troublee ATM with Debian testing in that some packages are stuck in unstable. That is not a problem for packages that are in the Debian repositories, but it is a problem for packages outside the repositories.

Luckily I found a workaround.

The packages that are missing for me were
libhunspell-1.3-0 and qtbase-abi-5-3-2(which is just a virtual package)

First I tried to install otter with gdebi so that it installs any and all dependencies it can install and tells me which ones I am missing.

I installed libhunspell by manually downloading libhunspell-1.3-0 from the unstable repository from here and then installing that package with gdebi:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libhunspell-1.3-0
Then I did sudo apt install libqt5core5a (which provides functionalities that otter needs from the qtbase-abi
Unfortunately I could not install qtbase-abi-5-3-2 itself at all, so I just skipped that.
If you had any other missing dependencies you can install them by using the same methods I used.
Then I just in case uninstalled otter.
I reinstalled it by downloading the latest weekly package and doing sudo dpkg -i name-of-otters-deb-package.deb
And now I am writing this from my Otter-browser on Debian testing.