Q Light Controller+

Previously, I have successfully installed QLC+ on two different Chromebooks using the available Linux within ChromeOS. I did not have any complications. I am now trying to install QLC+ on a new Chromebook and getting and installation error. The error is as follows:

Error Installing Linux Application

An error occurred during the installation of your Linux application.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qlcplus: Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but it is not installable
Depends: libfftw3-double3 (>= 3.3.5) but it is not installable
Depends: libftdi1-2 (>= 1.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable or
libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5multimedia5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5multimediawidgets5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5network5 (>= 5.8.0) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5script5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libudev1 (>= 183) but it is not installable
Depends: libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.16) but it is not installable
Recommends: libmad0 but it is not installable
Recommends: libsndfile1 but it is not installable
Recommends: libqt5multimedia5-plugins but it is not installable

Can someone please help guide me to resolving this error and get QLC+ installed. I am totally new to using Linux and have only used it for QLC+.

Thank you,

That's not enough information to help you. You really should tell what distro you are using and what package repositories are available to your distro's package manager.

All the "Depends:" stuff really should be part of your distro package repos and available to the package manager, so it seems your system is broken regarding updates.

It seems that ChromeOS is based on gentoo. There's a package ("ebuild") for QLC+ in gentoo.

How did you install QLC+ exactly?

In the ChromeOS Linux system (which if I understand correctly is Debian), I double click on the Linux QLC+ Installation file (qlcplus_4.12.6_amd64.deb) that was downloaded. A window pops up to install QLC+ Linux application, click OK. It says that Installation Starts successfully but then the dependency error shows up.

This is how Linux is turned on and accessed:

Set up Linux on your Chromebook
Linux is a feature that lets you develop software using your Chromebook. You can install Linux command line tools, code editors, and IDEs (integrated development environments) on your Chromebook. These can be used to write code, create apps, and more. Check which devices have Linux.

Important: If you use your Chromebook at work or school, you might not be able to use Linux. For more information, contact your administrator.

Turn on Linux
Linux is off by default. You can turn it on any time from Settings.

On your Chromebook, at the bottom right, select the time.
Select Settings and then Advanced and then Developers.
Next to "Linux development environment," select Turn On.
Follow the on-screen instructions. Setup can take 10 minutes or more.
A terminal window opens. You have a Debian 10 (Buster) environment. You can run Linux commands, install more tools using the APT package manager, and customize your shell.

As I said previously, I had no problems installing QLC+ on two other chromebooks in the Linux environment. So Im at a loss as to why it is not installing.

Ok, so it's debian.

Then from terminal do: sudo apt-get install -f
If you install it next time, download the file and then run in terminal: sudo apt install path/to/package.deb
It may be just ./package.deb if the package is in the current directory. The path is important, otherwise apt
will attempt to download the package from the internet.

More info:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/159114

Jano

Ok….we can dismiss this discussion. I returned the chromebook because I found out it only had ChromeOS 32-Bit originally built into it instead of 64-Bit.

The other two chromebooks that I have QLC+ installed on are both ChromeOS 64-Bit. I’m hoping that was the issue with getting QLC+ installed.

Now to continue my search for a good deal on a 64-bit 2-in-1 chromebook model to run my lights.

Thanks for the replies to attempt to help me.

I'm sorry for completely overlooking the Chromebook and ChromeOS reference in my first post here, Which I have no idea about...