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TheLulGuy

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Registered: 2023-04-21

Posts: 8

[SOLVED]Unable to download unmet dependencies using pacman

I have downloaded spotiflyer from the official website as a .deb package, and am using dpkg to install it:

sudo dpkg -i spotiflyer_3.6.3-1_amd64.deb

It showed the following unmet dependencies, which i need to download. This is the exact output:

(Reading database ... 249 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack spotiflyer_3.6.3-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking spotiflyer (3.6.3-1) over (3.6.3-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of spotiflyer:
spotiflyer depends on libc6; however:
  Package libc6 is not installed.
spotiflyer depends on libexpat1; however:
  Package libexpat1 is not installed.
spotiflyer depends on libuuid1; however:
  Package libuuid1 is not installed.
spotiflyer depends on xdg-utils; however:
  Package xdg-utils is not installed.
spotiflyer depends on zlib1g; however:
  Package zlib1g is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package spotiflyer (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
spotiflyer

I have tried downloading them individually using pacman, but it says 'target not found:'. Output:

➜  sudo pacman -S libc6 libexpat1 libuuid1 xdg-utils zlib1g

error: target not found: libc6
error: target not found: libexpat1
error: target not found: libuuid1
warning: xdg-utils-1.1.3+25+g8ae0263-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
error: target not found: zlib1g

Where do i download these dependencies from then?

Last edited by TheLulGuy (2023-04-21 11:05:41)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to download unmet dependencies using pacman

Don't use dpkg (or any package management tool that's not pacman) on archlinux to avoid major breakage .

Archlinux uses different naming and typically combines things in one package where debian uses 3 or 4 packages, so it's no surprise some things aren't found .

sptifyer is in the AUR, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository to understand how to install it.

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TheLulGuy

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Registered: 2023-04-21

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to download unmet dependencies using pacman

Don't use dpkg (or any package management tool that's not pacman) on archlinux to avoid major breakage .

Archlinux uses different naming and typically combines things in one package where debian uses 3 or 4 packages, so it's no surprise some things aren't found .

sptifyer is in the AUR, read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository to understand how to install it.

Welcome to archlinux forums.

Thank you! Ill edit the title of this post to [SOLVED]