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Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:41 am
by 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.
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:11 am
by Eadwine Rose
In the menu, search bar. MX and it'll be in the list.
Command is:
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:13 am
by dolphin_oracle
It shouldn’t have been removed but if so reinstall
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sudo apt install mx-packageinstaller
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:05 am
by maxmoon
Eadwine Rose wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:11 am
In the menu, search bar. MX and it'll be in the list.
Command is:
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.
dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:13 am
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?
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:19 am
by 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.
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:19 am
by Adrian
Doesn't mxpi mean it is a Raspberry Pi application?
It's an unfortunate coincidence, it stands for MX Package Installer (MXPI)
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager? [Solved]
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:46 am
by 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.
Re: Where is MX Package Installer/Manager?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:57 pm
by maxmoon
dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:46 am
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
, 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 :)