Fruitless installation attempts: "Back in Time" backup program at Kubuntu 22.04 LTS.

[Mark Fraser]

On 21/05/2022 14:46, Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs wrote:
> Hello Everybody.
> 
> I am trying to get started with the "Simple backup"  program "Back in 
> Time" at Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. However, so far, I have complications.
> 
> On one hand, I DO manage to install.....
> 
> "backintime-common" via the terminal....;
> 
> "Back in Time Helper" via "Discover". This is a KDE5 graphical front end 
> for Back in Time.
> 
> So far, I did manage to find any way to launch "Back in Time Helper". I 
> cannot find it via K-Menu - also not via Discover, Synaptic, Muon, 
> Terminal or Dolphin.
> 
> At Discover I see two versions of "Back in Time":  a root version or a 
> "normal"
> 
> When trying to install either versionr, I get the following feedback:
> 
> Dependency resolution failed;
> 
> Too few items to process.
> 
> When trying to install via "Synaptic package manager", I get the 
> following feedback.....
> 
> backintime-qt4:
> Could not apply changes. Fix broken packages first!
> 
> At Muon package manager, I get the following feedback....
> 
> The "backintime-qt4" package could not be marked for installation or 
> upgrade:
>      Depends: backintime-qt4, but it is not installable
> 
>  From terminal.......
> 
> bas at Viaconsensus-iter:~$ sudo apt-get install  backintime-qt4
> [sudo] password for bas:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> backintime-qt : Depends: libnotify-bin but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> 
> I did try to install "libnotify-bin", however, this did not deliver any 
> result.
> 
> bas at Viaconsensus-iter:~$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
> [sudo] password for bas:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Package libnotify-bin 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 'libnotify-bin' has no installation candidate
> bas at Viaconsensus-iter:~$
> 
> Can anybody provide me with ideas that help to get "Back in Time" 
> installed at Kubuntu 22.04 LTS?

Have you tried backintime-qt? I'm still on 21.10 and backintime-qt wants 
to install backintime-common backintime-qt libnotify-bin.