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Downloads Page: Snap Link is 404 #383

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Draco18s opened this issue Jan 23, 2021 · 5 comments
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Downloads Page: Snap Link is 404 #383

Draco18s opened this issue Jan 23, 2021 · 5 comments

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@Draco18s
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The Linux (Snap) url points to https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/releases/download/v1.6.7/syncplay_1.6.7_amd64.snap which does not exist (there is no /releases folder in the master branch). I was able to acquire it via the link in this comment, but the site should be updated.

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albertosottile commented Jan 24, 2021

Interesting... does the snap that you downloaded work for you?

We are actually in the process of dropping the Snap Store as release channel, as we were not able to build a snap that consistently worked across all the test systems (as you probably noticed from the issue you mentioned).

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Draco18s commented Jan 24, 2021

does the snap that you downloaded work for you?

Yep. Worked just fine, and aside from having a bit of an issue pointing it at VLC (I didn't actually know what it wanted to be pointed at, but eventually I noticed that I pointed it at a file, it didn't like it, and the field changed to something else and that's when I noticed that it was a dropdown that already knew what it was looking for).

The Debian download didn't, it just vomited errors at me when I tried to install it. Whole bunch like this:

E: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 libqt5positioning5 amd64 5.12.4+dfsg-1 is not (yet) available (404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.38 80])

The app-image version didn't appear to do anything. Dunno if my system even recognized it as an executable (I'm on Pop!OS, which is Ubuntu-like).

Another person that was going to join us had more issues than I did, and eventually gave up, but I don't know what the problem he had was, just that his video player would immediately crash (he had Syncplay running just fine).

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daniel-123 commented Jan 24, 2021

With regards to the installation errors of deb package: those are because the required packages is somehow not available in the Ubuntu Eoan repository. Which does look a bit weird if you are on Pop!OS?

As a side note Ubuntu Eoan is already past it's support period, so broken repositories wouldn't surprise me. Does Pop!OS extend the duration of support past of what upstream Ubuntu does?

EDIT: after checking with Wikipedia - it seems that Pop!OS 19.10 is out of support for about half of a year already. You should really consider upgrading. Not just because Syncplay doesn't work and we don't see much of a reason to support platforms considered obsolete by their makers, but mostly because your system is not getting any security updates.

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Ah ha. Interesting.

The system hadn't notified me that there were updates (even checking it manually now it says there aren't). So that makes some degree of sense. I've also only been booting back into Pop!OS for maybe three months now? Definitely wasn't back in July/August as I was working from home and needed a Windows OS for Teams (I can't sign in otherwise, some configuration setting IT put on it), so I probably missed the memo.

Thanks for checkin'

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As we stopped building snaps with 1.6.8 due to serious problems with getting them to work consistently, I'm closing this issue.

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