Cannot install Tribler - missing dependencies

Question

trying to install this https://www.tribler.org/ on Ubuntu 18.04 but I get this error:

And I can't find any repo for libsodium

tio@tio:~$ sudo apt install libsodium18
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libsodium18 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libsodium18' has no installation candidate
tio@tio:~$ sudo apt install libsodium13
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libsodium13 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libsodium13' has no installation candidate
tio@tio:~$ 

I reported issue 3864 to GitHub tracker.

Answer 1

After I fixed the issue with VLC - Cannot install VLC on Ubuntu 18.04 - missing dependencies I used this and it worked

wget https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases/download/v7.1.0-rc1/tribler_7.1.0-rc1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./tribler_7.1.0-rc1_all.deb

Answer 2

This package is not compatible with Ubuntu 18.04, as it depends on libsodium13 or libsodium18, but Ubuntu 18.04 has libsodium23. You should contact the developers of the package to let them know of this issue, and hopefully they will release a fixed version.

Answer 3

Just tested pre-release version. It works out the box:

wget https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/releases/download/v7.1.0-rc1/tribler_7.1.0-rc1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./tribler_7.1.0-rc1_all.deb

and launch it:

it has fully-functional tray icon with drop-down menu (at least on MATE):

Notes: currently bug 3864 is fixed, and fix will be included in next stable version.