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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-04 12:20
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    Hi,

    I insalled MEGAsync from it's officail debian "PA" (deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_8.0/ ./) and now whe i tried to update it via sudo apt install megasync, it run into a dependency issue; it required libqt5core5a >=5.6.0, but it couldn't be installed, so i downloaded it from Debain's repo and installed it with gdebi without any problem. Now when i try to update anything i run into another dependency issue, this time with qtbase-abi-5-6-1. libqt5core5a contains qtbase-abi-5-6-1, but when i try to remove it and reinstall it from Deepin's repo it fails, becuse a lot of packages depend on qtbase-abi-5-6-1. And if i try to fix this sudo apt --fix-broken install, it warns me that these packages will be removed:
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    And i don't dare to remove them, because i don't know if i will be able to reinstall all of them bu i don't want to risk it. Is there a way to solve this without removing those packages?

    If not or if it would be way too difficult, will i be able to reinstall all the removed packages?

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    bobo
    deepin
    2017-09-04 13:02
    #1
    Hi savanweyln,

    Please don't remove dde-*, otherwise your system would be broken. PPA is "supported" by Deepin, but mess up the system very easily. I would suggest first t remove the ppa and MEGA. Then update and fix dependency problem. Finally, download the deb package of MEGA from the PPA, and install it. When you install MEGA, please pay attention to any messages of potential package conflicts.

    Best
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    jingle
    deepin
    2017-09-04 17:55
    #2
    sudo apt-get install megasync
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    s3040608090
    deepin
    2017-09-05 00:07
    #3
    Megasync is in deepin store. It is better to try deepin store before install a package in other ways.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-06 05:58
    #4
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    sudo apt-get install megasync

    Can't do. I can't install/remove ANY package until i remove all the above mentioned packages.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-06 06:04
    #5
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    Megasync is in deepin store. It is better to try deepin store before install a package in other ways ...

    I know but it's not the latest version. And i rarely use any AppStore/Software Center (including Deepin Store) anyway. I like to install packages manually from the official repositories. Third party repositories only come into sight if they contain newer versions of packages i need. Like Firefox & Thunderbird. Both can be installed from the repository but those are old versions. And i like to avoid running any e-mail client or web browser as root. Because they can be updated that way too.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-06 06:07
    #6
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    Hi savanweyln,

    Please don't remove dde-*, otherwise your system would be broken. PPA is "supported" ...

    What? the add-apt-repositroy is working? I didn't use that since Deepin 15 beta 2, because it was not supported in those versions and because i didn't try it since. But this was not added with that command. I used sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mega.list, copy-paste the deb line into it and saved it.
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    bobo
    deepin
    2017-09-06 07:48
    #7
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    What? the add-apt-repositroy is working? I didn't use that since Deepin 15 beta 2, because it was  ...

    It is working, but
    1. sudo apt install python-software-properties software-properties-common
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    needs to be installed first.
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    jingle
    deepin
    2017-09-06 16:45
    #8
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    Can't do. I can't install/remove ANY package until i remove all the above mentioned packages.
    1. sudo dpkg -i megasync-Debian_8.0_amd64.deb

    3. sudo apt-get install -f
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    I installed successfully and did not prompt for uninstalling DDE.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-07 07:29
    #9
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    I installed successfully and did not prompt for uninstalling DDE.

    It prompted for libqt5core5a 5.6.0 or newer, so i downloaded it from Debian's unstable repo and installed it with gdebi. And now i can't remove it.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-09-07 07:33
    #10
    Edited by savanweylyn at 2017-9-6 16:34
    https://bbs.deepin.org/post/145042
    It is working, but  needs to be installed first.

    Thanks. It's good to know, but i don't think I'll use it. If a single package can mess the system up this badly, i don't want to know how much mess can a whole repository cause.
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    savanweylyn
    deepin
    2017-11-27 04:12
    #11
    I managed to remove libqt5core5a 5.6.0 but with other dde- packges. After that was done, I couldn't reinstall any of the removed dde- packages because they were not found,s o I ended up reinstalling Deepin...
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