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I'm trying to install the neard package in Ubuntu 20.04. Here I read:

Status: Superseded

But it does not say "superseded" by what. Anyway I tried to download the deb package (translated from Italian):

$ sudo dpkg -i neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb 
dpkg-deb: error: "neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb" it is not an archive in Debian format
dpkg: error when processing archive neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control has returned error 2

I tried to find the newer package

$ apt-cache search neard
$

The goal is to use the Qt5 NFC module that requires neard.

EDIT

I hope I don't need neard but in the official documentation I read:

Currently the API is supported on Android, and Linux using Neard v0.14 or later.

Are you sure I don't need it?

Mark
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Better way is to install neard packages https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/neard-tools from supported Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repository manually as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/neard/neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/neard/neard-tools_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb ./neard-tools_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb

Installation from proposed is possible from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neard/0.16-0.1/+build/11887550 as follows:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neard/0.16-0.1/+build/11887550/+files/neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb
wget -c https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/neard/0.16-0.1/+build/11887550/+files/neard-tools_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install ./neard_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb ./neard-tools_0.16-0.1_amd64.deb

but I can't find the reason for this.

N0rbert
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