Installing Glipper on ubuntu 20.04

I just got a new Laptop with ubuntu 20.04

Trying to find the package to install glipper with

apt-cache search glipper

failed.

Is there a way to install it nonetheless? Is there a good alternative in ubuntu 20.4?

2 Answers

You can install it manually by downloading packages from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS repository:

cd ~/Downloads
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sudo apt-get install ./glipper_2.4-6_all.deb ./python-appindicator_12.10.1+16.04.20170215-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./python-gconf_2.28.1+dfsg-1.1_amd64.deb ./python-gtk2_2.24.0-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./python-keybinder_0.3.1-1_amd64.deb ./libappindicator1_12.10.1+16.04.20170215-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ./multiarch-support_2.23-0ubuntu11.2_amd64.deb

and then launch with glipper. Confirmed to work normally at least on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS.

Glipper was removed from Debian in 2018, and thence from Ubuntu also. It had been unmaintained for years, and depended upon obsolete gnome-python, which in turn depended upon Python 2 (now also deprecated).

Attempting to install this software in Ubuntu 20.04 is not recommended.

For a list of current clipboard managers, try apt search clipboard manager or the Search feature of your Ubuntu Software application.