Installing Bookworm on Ubuntu 20.04 Failed due to Unresolvable Dependencies

Question

Using the synaptic package manager, I got this message: The following packages have unresolvable dependencies:

com.github.babluboy.bookworm: Depends: ninja but it is not installable

Installing the ninja-build package did not help.

Entering sudo apt-get install bookworm in a terminal window didn't help. I got the error message "Unable to locate package bookworm".

Suggestions?

It turns out that others have already opened an issue on GitHub. The workaround using Flatpak worked for me. — NanoBotic, Dec 20, 2020 at 13:46
sudo apt install com.github.babluboy.bookworm, but it gives the same error — Mark Jeronimus, Oct 8, 2022 at 21:52

N0rbert · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-19 19:25:57Z

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You can get binary deb-package from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS directly by

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ninja/ninja_0.1.3-2_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./ninja_0.1.3-2_amd64.deb

and install Bookworm from the PPA.

answered Dec 19, 2020 at 19:19

N0rbert

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Thank you for the suggestion. Please consider adding it to the issue page on GitHub mentioned in my reply to the comment from @user535733.
– NanoBotic
Dec 20, 2020 at 13:59
Done, so you can accept my answer here :)
– N0rbert
Dec 20, 2020 at 15:16
I didn't use your answer so I don't feel that I can accept it. I used the Flatpak workaround found on the GitHub issue page. Thanks for adding your suggestion to the issue page for those who don't want to try Flatpak.
– NanoBotic
Dec 20, 2020 at 20:09

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