Problems Installing Dukto?

Question

I can't seem to follow the tutorials for Dukto (A file transfer program, an alternative to Wi-fi Direct), as the command sudo apt install dukto returns E: Unable to locate package dukto Does this package still exist? Every tutorial on the subject seems to include an install command for this package. I'm using Kubuntu 17.04, so maybe this has something to do with it? I don't know if 17.04 is compatible with 16.04 packages, which I believe duckto is.

Solution

Dukto is not in the regular Ubuntu repositories.

Download it at the home page at http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11

The direct Ubuntu download is at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:colomboem&package=dukto

Update #1:

Did you follow these instructions?

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/colomboem/xUbuntu_16.04/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dukto.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dukto

If that didn't work, then do this...

Download the file here...

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/colomboem/xUbuntu_16.04/amd64/dukto_6.0-1_amd64.deb

And assuming that the .deb file went to your Downloads folder, install it with...

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/dukto_6.0-1_amd64.deb

Comments

[Sarah Szabo]

Curious, I followed the instructions, and still got the same error message.

[Boris Hamanov]

@SarahSzabo please see the update to my answer. Report back.

[Sarah Szabo]

Not sure why the .deb worked, but the command line version didn't.

[Boris Hamanov]

@SarahSzabo show me cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dukto.list.

[Sarah Szabo]

deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/colomboem/xU‌​buntu_16.04/ /

[Boris Hamanov]

@SarahSzabo looks fine. I don't know why the first method didn't work for you, unless the product name was different... ie:dukto_6.0-1. You could look in Synaptic to confirm that.

[Itamar Katz]

On Ubuntu 18.04 I get a bunch of missing dependencies when I try to install the deb file. I tried to install the dependencies, but then I get other missing dependencies.. any idea?