Installing Spotlite results in dependencies errors

Solution 1:

According to the search on Repology this package is available only for ArchLinux. They mark this package as out-of-date since 2019-10-16. If you still need it, let's adapt ArchLinux PKGBUILD (or use zip-archive from Spotlite developers with debs directly) as follows on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/o/openssl098/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.2.14.04.1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://www.spot-net.nl.vfcdn.net/downloads/spotlite/SpotLite%28v2%29Ubuntu.zip
unzip SpotLite\(v2\)Ubuntu.zip
sudo apt-get install ./libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.2.14.04.1_amd64.deb ./spotlite-amd64.deb

For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the problem is harder, it does not have Qt4. So we need to add special Qt4 PPA first:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rock-core/qt4
sudo apt-get update

and then unpack libssl0.9.8 and SpotLite to /usr/local as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/o/openssl098/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.2.14.04.1_amd64.deb
dpkg -x libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu3.2.14.04.1_amd64.deb libssl
sudo cp -arfv libssl/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/* /usr/local/lib/
sudo cp -arfv libssl/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/local/lib/
sudo cp -arfv libssl/usr/lib/* /usr/local/lib/
sudo cp -arfv libssl/usr/share/* /usr/local/share/

wget -c http://www.spot-net.nl.vfcdn.net/downloads/spotlite/SpotLite%28v2%29Ubuntu.zip
unzip SpotLite\(v2\)Ubuntu.zip
dpkg -x spotlite-amd64.deb spotlite
sudo cp -arfv spotlite/usr/bin/SpotLite* /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp -arfv spotlite/usr/local/share/* /usr/local/share/
sudo cp -arfv spotlite/usr/share /usr/local/

update-menus
sudo ldconfig
sudo apt-get install libaudio2 libmng2 libodbc1 libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-odbc libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libqtwebkit4 qtcore4-l10n

And then use SpotLite as it was planned.