it appears that debian bullseye no longer supports libappindicator3-1. any thoughts on a work around? i've found an article on a possible fix that indicates libayatana-appindicator is a suitable replacement, and i suppose you have to ln that to libappindicator3-1. thank you!!!
well, further research indicates that the .deb package has to be updated to reflect the new name libayatana-appindicator3-1 instead of the old name of libappindicator3-1. not sure exactly how to do that since i can't get it installed in the first place.
Assuming OpenBuilds CONTROL on x86_64 then we are waiting on Electron (upstream) to fix [Feature Request]: libayatana-appindicator1 as a replacement/alternative to libappindicator1 · Issue #27527 · electron/electron The dependency is in the electron packages, not directly under our CONTROL. Try Ubuntu, Windows, Mac, etc - so far seems just Bullseye that no longer supports it.
makes sense. my fix will be trying one step back on the debian since, as you correctly stated, it appeared once people upgraded to bullseye. apparently folks aren't happy about how it was handled. they could have just installed a fake library that did nothing more than redirect it to the new version for a couple of iterations, and then removed it once older software had time to update. to me, that would have made a much smoother transition, rather than just arbitrarily deciding, without warning to drop it completely. thank you for the info. this is more of an experiment. i'm working out having a backup solution in case my interface craters for any reason, i can still run my machine, with a low end computer cheaply. since i'm starting a side business, i want to have as many redundancies as i can to keep up and running as much as possible.
You are correct, Linux maintaners shouldn't make life difficult for developers like this. Older version will be fine yes.
I just ran across today this as I did a fresh install of Debian 11. I used the workaround of installing the Debian 10 versions of those required dependancies: wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libindicator/libindicator3-7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libappindicator/libappindicator3-1_0.4.92-7_amd64.deb sudo apt install ./libindicator3-7_0.5.0-4_amd64.deb sudo apt install ./libappindicator3-1_0.4.92-7_amd64.deb John