Ubuntu MATE 16.04.7 and X2Go Server

[Mandolino]

Hello everyone,

It's my first post on the forum !

I have a big issue for installing X2Go Server on a Odroid-U3 running Ubuntu MATE 16.04.7 and I'm searching for a workaround.

To install X2Go Server, I have running the following commands:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install x2goserver

But there is an issue with a dependency (xserver-x2gokdrive) that can't be installed because the package isn't available:

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odroid@odroid:~$ sudo apt-get install x2goserver
[sudo] password for odroid: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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:
 x2goserver : Depends: x2goserver-x2gokdrive (< 4.1.0.4-0~1975~ubuntu16.04.1.1~) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: x2goserver-x2gokdrive (>= 4.1.0.4-0~1975~ubuntu16.04.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
odroid@odroid:~$ sudo apt-get install x2goserver-x2gokdrive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
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:
 x2goserver-x2gokdrive : Depends: xserver-x2gokdrive but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
odroid@odroid:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-x2gokdrive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package xserver-x2gokdrive 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 'xserver-x2gokdrive' has no installation candidate
odroid@odroid:~$ 

Any idea will be welcome !

Regards

[rooted]

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[Mandolino]

Just for reference, I have found a solution by following the instructions here:

https://github.com/kapolos/armhf-x2go

At the end of the process, you can execute the following commands for Ubuntu MATE:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2gomatebindings

Frankly, it's my third and probably last post on this forum, posting here was just a waste of time.

Regards

[rooted]

I bumped the post hoping someone would have an idea to help but unfortunately it seems no one did.

Thanks for coming back and posting the solution.

[meveric]

Ubuntu 16.04 has no longer any support, therefore trying to do anything "new" with an out of date image, was probably a bad idea to begin with.
There are other more modern images available with working software repositories which probably would have worked better.

Overall I tried X2Go for a while where it worked fine, but I always go back to xpra for my needs nowadays either forwarding a single application or the entire desktop when needed, even via SSH.

[Mandolino]

Hello,

The team behind the X2Go project has release a new build of the packages (2023-08-18) that fix the issue with the xserver-x2gokdrive dependency on Ubuntu 16.04 AND 18.04.
From now, X2Go Server can be installed with the following commands :

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2gomatebindings

Regards