[winswitch] Install python3-only xpra

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Tue Sep 24 14:48:16 BST 2019


On 24/09/2019 20:23, Antoine Martin wrote:
> On 24/09/2019 18:43, Σταύρος Ντέντος via shifter-users wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> On a new Ubuntu 18.04 system, I do:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install xpra python3-xpra
>>
>> However, among numerous packages, I am getting:
>>
>> [...] python2-xpra [...]
>>
>> Why is that? Isn't / Should there be an easier way to install 
>> python3-only
>> xpra?
> Maybe this will work? (untested):
> apt-get install python3-xpra
> apt-get install xpra
Forgot one important command line argument:
apt-get install xpra --no-install-recommends

Or just wait less than 48 hours for 3.0 to be released.

Antoine

> 
> "xpra" is a meta-package, which depends on either "python2-xpra" or 
> "python3-xpra", and recommends "python2-xpra" in version 2.x
> 
>> I understand your need to support it, but AFAIK you are also saying that
>> Py3 is fully supported and working.
> It is, and it is now the default in v3.
> So installing "xpra" will only install "python3-xpra" by default.
> 
> Cheers,
> Antoine
> 
>>
>> Ντέντος Σταύρος
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