Debian trixie missing package

[Baelish]

from synaptic:

 

from terminal:

baelish@debian:~$ sudo apt install 0ad

Package 0ad has no versions available, but is named by another
package. This may indicate that the package is missing, obsolete
or it is only available within another source

Error: Package "0ad" has no candidates to install

 

my sources:

 

 

 

 

 

[zyli]

In Debian Trixie 0ad was removed from the repository because it supposedly does not work correctly with python 3.12.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064726
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/6895

Therefore:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/0ad ("[2024-04-13] 0ad REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)" )

Python is needed to build packages, it is not needed for installation.

For example, in Linux Arch, python 3.12 is in the system, but python 3.11.9 is downloaded for compilation.
You can look at line 41:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/0ad/-/blob/main/.SRCINFO?ref_type=heads

On Debian Trixie you can install 0ad by taking packages from sid.

You don't need to switch to the sid repository.

Three files (packages) are enough:
0ad_0.0.26-5_amd64.deb
0ad-data_0.0.26-1_all.deb
0ad-data-common_0.0.26-1_all.deb

Respectively from:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/0ad/download
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/0ad-data/download
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/0ad-data-common/download

Of course, we install with the command: # dpkg -i file1 file2 file3

By the way.
You have strange additional repositories.
Maybe it would be worth reading what FrankenDebian is:
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Of course, using the 0ad installation with sid according to the above recipe, we reduce FrankenDebian to a minimum.

Regards.

[andy5995]

@BaelishIf you're on an amd64 system and don't mind using an AppImage, you can download the 0ad AppImage and just run that.