UBPorts doesnt do anything
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Re: UBports installer does not install
I have the updated version of Lubuntu, I think its 20.4 or what ever the newest one is.
When I click to open the UBPorts Installer .deb package, it says cannot satisfy
dependencies....dumb.So then I somehow figured out a way to download it from the terminal and it now has a desktop icon and everything, but when I click that to open it literally nothing happens.
And I cannot find anywhere online where anyone has this issue, the program wont even install and when it does, it does nothing. Please help, I think the installer is the 0.8.8 or what ever. please help! thanks.
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@leonetikos In your place I would try the snap or the appimage.
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@moem I downloaded an appimage from the site, still doesnt even open or do anything. Literally nothing works. And I dont know what oyu mean by snap? what is snap?
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@moem okay so after looking for those snap instructions, I have lubuntu but should be the same as ubuntu and so snap should already be enabled, then the instructions said...what I already did. I installed it via the terminal and then now its in my computer and theres the little robot icon. But when I click it to open it, again, it just does......nooootttthhhhiiinnnng.
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Hi @leonetikos
You'll have to give more details on what you do.
Is your phone recognized by adb?
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@leonetikos said in UBPorts doesnt do anything:
@moem I downloaded an appimage from the site, still doesnt even open or do anything.
Dowloading is a good start.
Did you mark it as 'allowed to be executed as a program'?
If not, rightclick it in your file manager, open Properties, and you should find that option somewhere in the Permissions area.
Then doubleclick the program to start it.And I dont know what oyu mean by snap? what is snap?
Snap is a standard package format for programs, as used by Ubuntu and similar distros. I would think that most *Ubuntu users have heard of it. But there is a first time for everything.
The snap, just like the .deb and the app image, is offered for download on the device page.
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@applee said in UBPorts doesnt do anything:
Hi @leonetikos
You'll have to give more details on what you do.
Is your phone recognized by adb?
What button do you click on?I don't think they are getting quite that far. It sounds like the installer is not starting.
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@moem
Right I thought the installer started ; but I was too fast reading.@leonetikos
Can you try to run the installer from a command line prompt?
You should see an error message.
If you can copy/paste it here it might help.Probably a missing dependency or an architechture mismatch.
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@applee Yeah I made the icon after the terminal install, executable. I did that and then clicked it like any application on the desktop, nothing. I tried right clicking and doing open from terminal...it opened the terminal but did not actually run the program. I downloaded the appimage and when I clicked on that it did nothing what so ever. and When I clicked to open the .deb package the only error was 'Error cannot satisfy dependencies'. It seems I may be the only one with this issue which doesnt make sense to me now, My system is updated, the packages were installed like every other one from the proper sites. Do I try an older version of ubports? wouldnt that be counter productive?
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@leonetikos, I am not sure what Lubuntu does differently, but I have come across other apps in the past that would run OK on regular Ubuntu but not on Lubuntu.
Maybe you could try what @AppLee suggested and start the installer from the command line, and watch for the error messages.
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@arubislander okay, so what do i type in to do that? I start the terminal....then what? Im not very terminal savy mostly because they decided to make Chinese for doing things and its totally counter intuitive so I dont know exactly what to type in for that. Obviously I cant just open terminal and put.... 'run ubport installer' and then click enter.
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@leonetikos, A simple, "Could you or someone else help me with running the installer from the command line?" would have sufficed.
Open a terminal and type:
ubports-installerfollowed by pressing the ENTER key.
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@arubislander What I said was sufficient. I dont do politics here. You get your self butthurt, i dont care, do not respond to me with that political shit please im here just trying to figure something out and have been very courteous by thanking those helping me regardless of the fact that nothing has worked. But thanks for an answer to my question, the answer its self would have sufficed.
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@applee So I typed in ubports-installer in the terminal and here is what I got
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process Uncaught Exception: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/leonetikos/.config/ubports-installer' at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:925:3) at AsyncFunction.module.exports.sync (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/node_modules/make-dir/index.js:114:6) at ElectronStore._ensureDirectory (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:351:17) at ElectronStore.get store [as store] (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:270:22) at new Conf (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/node_modules/conf/dist/source/index.js:124:32) at new ElectronStore (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-store/index.js:28:3) at Object.<anonymous> (/snap/ubports-installer/365/app/resources/app.asar/src/lib/settings.js:26:18) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1152:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1173:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:992:32) -
@leonetikos always glad to help.
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@arubislander Thanks
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@arubislander this is what I got and am unclear on what it means.
leonetikos@leonetikos-hppaviliong7notebookpc:~$ snap connections ubports-installer Interface Plug Slot Notes adb-support ubports-installer:adb-support :adb-support - browser-support ubports-installer:browser-support :browser-support - desktop ubports-installer:desktop :desktop - desktop-legacy ubports-installer:desktop-legacy :desktop-legacy - gsettings ubports-installer:gsettings :gsettings - home ubports-installer:home :home - network ubports-installer:network :network - opengl ubports-installer:opengl :opengl - raw-usb ubports-installer:raw-usb :raw-usb - unity7 ubports-installer:unity7 :unity7 - wayland ubports-installer:wayland :wayland - -
@leonetikos I took the liberty to edit your posts to make the terminal output more readable.
The last command was to check that all the plugs for the ubports installer snap are connected to the correct slots (they are).
What I don't understand is why the ubports-installer wants to create a directory in your $HOME/.config folder. It doesn't try to do that here.
Could we check which version of the snap you have installed with:
snap list ubports-installerCould you post the output of that?
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@arubislander very interesting.... here is what i just got.
leonetikos@leonetikos-hppaviliong7notebookpc:~$ snap list ubports-installer Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes ubports-installer 0.8.9-beta 365 latest/stable ubports -It looks better how you changed it anyway so thanks.
