Lubuntu 20.04 64-bit -- can't install btsync-gui

[JimH44]

Hello Silvenga, I love your package, and have been using it on Lubuntu 18.04, 32-bit, but I can't install it on Lubuntu 20.04.3, 64-bit.

Here's what happens:

sudo apt-get install btsync-gui

but it produces this error:

 btsync-gui : Depends: btsync-gui-gtk but it is not going to be installed

I tried to install btsync-gui-gtk the same way, but got this error:

 btsync-gui-gtk : Depends: python-requests but it is not installable
              Depends: python-qrencode but it is not installable

I tried to install python-requests using pip but was not able to.

Would you have time to bundle a 64-bit version of btsync-gui that contains these dependencies?

Thanks for considering this request.

[Silvenga]

I don't think this is a bitness problem, Ubuntu has the 32-bit compatibility layer (by default?) - can you try and installing python-qrencode manually?

I suspect this may be related to Python3.

[JimH44]

Thanks for the comment.
I had already tried

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-qrencode

and got this error:

Package python-qrencode is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-qrencode' has no installation candidate

I think the Ubuntu repositories have moved on to python3, since 2 is no longer being supported. So I tried

sudo apt-get install python3-qrencode

and got success:

python3-qrencode is already the newest version (1.2-5build1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

Would you have time to release a python3 version with the 64-bit binaries in it? :-)

[Silvenga]

Unformatately, we're going to see a lot of Python 2 apps start to die off over the next couple year, this project will likely be one of them. I'm not a python dev, so I can't do the upgrade.

I come from .NET, and .NET can run 20 year old compiled binaries in the modern runtimes - so I'm used to (or spoiled of?) long term binary and behavior compatibility. This move by Python will fragment the ecosystem for many years to come, kind of sad.

[JimH44]

Yes, python is disappointing that way. Thanks for your part in packaging up the deb files.

Would tuxpoldo be interested in converting it to python3?