I often miss calls, and I may be slow to answer SMS on my Android phone, but I’m often in front of my computer, so I decided to look for solutions to show SMS and call notifications on my computer running Ubuntu 16.04. I first found LinConnect, but it does not seem to be developed anymore, and after some more research I discovered that KDE Connect should do the job. The developer just released KDE Connect 1.0 a few weeks ago with add encryption, the ability to reply to SMS from your computer and more… One person posted instructions for Kubuntu 16.04. There’s just a problem it won’t work with Unity desktop, only KDE Plasma, due to a lack of support for Qt 5.6. You can still use the older version without encryption and other new features by “simply” running:
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sudo apt install kdeconnect-plasma |
However the installation failed for me:
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Unpacking kde-cli-tools-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/kmimetypefinder.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to unpack .../libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking libkf5sysguard-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/processui.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to unpack .../plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking plasma-workspace (4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_runner_recentdocuments.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |
An “apt […]