Unable to install Springseed 2 on Ubuntu 15.04

Solution 1:

You have two options

• Change the dependencies and use the latest libgcrypt

  There are multiple reasons we're up to libgcrypt20

• Install libgcrypt11 and use an old version of libgcrypt

Change the dependencies:

First, remove the previous installation of SpringSeed:

sudo apt-get remove springseed

Download the latest SpringsSeed version here:

E.G.:

cd
wget http://cdn.michealharker.com/dl/springseed_2.0_amd64.deb

Follow these commands

mkdir temp.$$
cp springseed_2.0_amd64.deb temp.$$
cd temp.$$
dpkg-deb -x springseed_2.0_amd64.deb springseed-repackaged
cd springseed-repackaged
dpkg-deb -e ../springseed_2.0_amd64.deb

Open the control file:

nano DEBIAN/control

replace the line:

Depends: gconf2, gconf-service, libgtk2.0-0, libudev0 | libudev1, libgcrypt11, libgnome-keyring0, gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0, libnotify4, libxtst6, libnss3, python

with:

Depends: gconf2, gconf-service, libgtk2.0-0, libudev0 | libudev1, libgcrypt20, libgnome-keyring0, gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0, libnotify4, libxtst6, libnss3, python

Save and exit and follow these commands:

cd ..
sudo dpkg-deb -b springseed-repackaged
sudo dpkg -i springseed-repackaged.deb

Install libgcrypt11

Open a terminal and download the latest Utopic version for libgcrypt11:

cd
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.5.4-2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb

Download the latest Springseed version here, eg:

wget http://cdn.michealharker.com/dl/springseed_2.0_amd64.deb

Install with:

sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.5.4-2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i springseed_2.0_amd64.deb

And it works in Ubuntu 15.04 as well!

Solution 2:

The final release of Ubuntu 15.04 no longer keeps the package libgcrypt11, rather libgcrypt20 as you have come across by the Synaptic Package Manager.

All you have to do is to download the package from here and then install it prior to Springseed. You may earn additional knowledge from this source pointing out similar problems with other apps besides Springseed.

Please read the content from the second link carefully again if you face any problems.