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Mozilla VPN compatibility with Ubuntu releases

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jeremy33
jeremy33

Hi, I note that a Mozilla VPN package has just been released for Ubuntu Focal (20.04). Are there any plans to provide a package for Bionic (18.04)? I am reluctant to upgrade my system at the moment. Thanks. Jeremy

Hi, I note that a Mozilla VPN package has just been released for Ubuntu Focal (20.04). Are there any plans to provide a package for Bionic (18.04)? I am reluctant to upgrade my system at the moment. Thanks. Jeremy

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Hello!

At this moment we only support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) and 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla). Our development team is suggesting if you would be open to compiling yourself using these instructions for other versions of Ubuntu? https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/blob/main/README.md

Regards,

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spl
spl

Edit: There is a PPA for QT 5.15 on Ubuntu 20.04 https://launchpad.net/~beineri/+archive/ubuntu/opt-qt-5.15.2-focal

Original post: I'm unable to install the Mozilla VPN on Ubuntu 20.04. It requires QT 5.15.2, but 20.04 only has 5.12.

$ sudo apt install mozillavpn 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: 

mozillavpn : Depends: qt515base (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom4) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515charts-no-lgpl (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515declarative (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515graphicaleffects (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515imageformats (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515networkauth-no-lgpl (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515quickcontrols2 (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable
             Depends: qt515svg (>= 5.15.2-1basyskom1) but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages

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Gustavo Aguilera
Gustavo Aguilera
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Hello!

At this moment we only support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) and 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla). Our development team is suggesting if you would be open to compiling yourself using these instructions for other versions of Ubuntu? https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/blob/main/README.md

Regards,

jeremy33
jeremy33 Question owner

Many thanks for the advice! I will try it when I have time. Regards, Jeremy

Muhammad
Muhammad

For future visitors, seems like (on Jan 25, 2021) support for older distributions was released: https://launchpad.net/~mozillacorp/+archive/ubuntu/mozillavpn