Error while installing OSCAR on Lenovo Chromebook

[Bodie]

Hi,

I am trying to install OSCAR on my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14M836 but no success. The installer reports the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  oscar: Depends: libdouble-conversion3 but it is not installable
         Depends: libpcre16-3 but it is not installable
         Depends: qttranslations5-l10n but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.9) but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5serialport5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5xml5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5network5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5gui5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5widgets5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5opengl5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libqt5printsupport5 but it is not installable
         Depends: libglu1-mesa but it is not installable
         Depends: libgl1 but it is not installable
         Depends: libc6 but it is not installable

Any idea how to solve this? Is installation even possible on this model?

Thanks for any help!

[Crimson Nape]

Hi Bodie! -

Which O/S do you have, and which OSCAR "flavor" did you download?

- Red

[Bodie]

Hello!

My Chrome OS is 118.0.5993.86 


User agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0)

I tried these versions:

Debian 11: oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_i386.deb

AMD64:
Debian 10: oscar_1.5.1-Debian10_amd64.deb
Debian 11: oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_amd64.deb
Debian 12: oscar_1.5.1-Debian12_amd64.deb

An error message always appears.

[Crimson Nape]

I found this post made by the Google Chrome team:

In March of last year, Google updated the Linux container on Chrome OS from Debian 9 to the current Debian 10 release which is codenamed, Buster. If you have a Chromebook and you're using Linux, this is likely the version of Debian Linux that you are leveraging.

Have you verified which Linux container version you are using?

- Red

[Bodie]

When I open the terminal, I see the word penguin. Is it a Linux version?

[Crimson Nape]

Tux the penguin is the Linux logo.  try this Linux command in a terminal window, cat /etc/os-release

This should give you information you are looking for.

Edit: If you prefer to save the output to a file, use this, cat /etc/os-release > output.txt

- Red

[pholynyk]

the other way is 'cat /etc/debian_version'

Mine is reporting 11.6

[Bodie]

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian

Version 11.7

[Crimson Nape]

Based off of your responses, this is the one that should work:  https://www.apneaboard.com/OSCAR/oscar_1..._amd64.deb

After downloading the file above, you would do the following to install OSCAR:

• Open a terminal window
  
• Since you have tried to install OSCAR before, type: sudo apt purge -y oscar, press Enter/Return.
  
• Navigate to the directory where you downloaded oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_amd64.deb.
  
• Type: sudo apt install ./oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_amd64.deb, press Enter/Return.
  (Remember to put the period and forward slash ("./") in front of the file name.  This tells the apt program that it is a local file and not go to the internet looking for it.)
  

Good luck!
- Red

[Bodie]

sudo apt purge -y oscar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'oscar' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.

And then...


sudo apt install ./oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'oscar:amd64' instead of './oscar_1.5.1-Debian11_amd64.deb'
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:
 oscar:amd64 : Depends: libdouble-conversion3:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libpcre16-3:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: qttranslations5-l10n:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5core5a:amd64 (>= 5.9) but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5serialport5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5xml5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5network5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5gui5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5widgets5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5opengl5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt5printsupport5:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libglu1-mesa:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libgl1:amd64 but it is not installable
               Depends: libc6:amd64 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.