Mailspring: Bug: Can't install on Ubuntu 20.10

[Pajn]

Describe the bug
The deb package depends on gvfs-bin, this package has long been deprecated and is no longer available in Ubuntu 20.10.
I can not see that any gvfs-* command line tools is used by mailspring so it might be as easy as just dropping gvfs-bin from https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/blob/master/app/build/resources/linux/debian/control.in

Electron itself used gvfs-bin in version 2 which is why it might have been included in the first place, but since version 3 it has migrated to the newer and supported gio tools https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/17452#issuecomment-490037674

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[JAZ-013]

I am also experiencing this. I just upgraded to 20.10 now that it is officially release and no long have Mailspring installed. Any chance this could be bumped up in priority?

[Code-Bases]

Hi.
Here's te solution for now:

In my case firstly I needed to resolve some other dependencies:
sudo apt install libsecret-1-dev gconf2 python2 python-is-python2

And after that, just install it ignoring the gvfs-bin:
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=gvfs-bin -i mailspring-1.7.8-amd64.deb

So far everything working perfect. In Ubuntu 20.10, package gvfs-bin was replaced by gvfs, libglib2.0-bin which are already installed, so technically we should be fine.

Let me know if it work for You.

[jrodd96]

Can confirm the above solution works for me on Pop! OS 20.10. This also works for a handful of other applications that have the same dependency issue w/ gvfs-bin for now.

[jrodd96]

I would also like to add to the above solution if you are running the aptitude package manager, you are likely to encounter an error whenever you run sudo apt-get upgrade if you already had Mailspring installed before the upgrade:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: mailspring : Depends: gvfs-bin but it is not installable

The solution that I found was to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/status (BE CAREFUL) and remove gvfs-bin from the list of dependencies for Mailspring.
Then run sudo apt-get -f install with no options to ensure the change has worked.

[ElSenor64]

I can confirm that this temporary workaround does work on POP!_os 20.10, and that jrodd96's fix for the dependency error also works great.

Thanks guys! I love this client and it's good to be up and using it again!

[bjoernhohe]

Same here switched to POP!OS 20.10 yesterday and the workaorund helped for now

[codehia]

Instead of removing gvfs-bin replacing the same with libglib2.0-bin | gvfs-bin also works.