Where is MX Package Installer/Manager? [Solved]

[maxmoon]

For years I installed stuff over apt install, but sometimes I just started the mx package installer by typing "sudo mx-pack[TAB][ENTER]" to start the MX Package Manager, if I needed something from testing or backports.

It looks like it's gone, now. Was it renamed or is there a new software for it?

I even can't find it in the mx-tools list.

[Eadwine Rose]

In the menu, search bar. MX and it'll be in the list.

Command is:

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mxpi-launcher

[dolphin_oracle]

It shouldn’t have been removed but if so reinstall

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sudo apt install mx-packageinstaller

[maxmoon]

In the menu, search bar. MX and it'll be in the list.

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mxpi-launcher

I don't have this installed on my computer. Doesn't mxpi mean it is a Raspberry Pi application? But I tried to execute mx-launcher, too, but that isn't on my system.

It shouldn’t have been removed but if so reinstall

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sudo apt install mx-packageinstaller

This solved the problem, but I don't know why it wasn't there? Is there a cleanup routine, which will delete packages, which aren't used for a long time on MX Linux?

Or was it removed, because I am still on MX19?

[dolphin_oracle]

nope, we don't have anything that should have remove mx-packageinstaller. it would be possible if something that it depends on would be removed, but we don't have anything that would do that automatically.

[Adrian]

Doesn't mxpi mean it is a Raspberry Pi application?

It's an unfortunate coincidence, it stands for MX Package Installer (MXPI)

[dolphin_oracle]

the only thing jumping out at me that would remove mx-packageinstaller in any kind of normal situation would be if the user removed the flatpak package.

[maxmoon]

the only thing jumping out at me that would remove mx-packageinstaller in any kind of normal situation would be if the user removed the flatpak package.

That's exactly the reason!

I uninstalled flatpak with

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apt remove flatpak

, because one flatpak application claimed it is too old and I wanted to use mx-packageinstaller to get a backport of flatpak. I didn't realize mx-packageinstaller would be uninstalled, too. At this point I have to ask why?

I've installed mx-packageinstaller and the backport of flatpak and the flatpak application likes it too.

Everything works again.

Thanks a lot :)