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I cannot install emma database GUI for Ubuntu 20.4.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install emma

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package emma

My Linux is an ubuntu server with an ubuntu desktop installed on it

$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal
mercury
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  • That package isn't available for *focal* or 20.04 (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=emma) as it relies on *python2* which has had support dropped (*python2 is EOL & unsupported now*). – guiverc Aug 10 '20 at 04:33
  • @guiverc, .. :| – mercury Aug 10 '20 at 04:54

3 Answers3

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The package is not available in the 20.04 LTS repository, but you can still install it manually by downloading packages from 18.04 LTS manually:

mkdir -p ~/Downloads/emma
cd ~/Downloads/emma

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-glade2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python-mysqldb/python-mysqldb_1.3.10-1build1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mysql-5.7/libmysqlclient20_5.7.33-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emma/emma_0.6-5_all.deb

sudo apt-get install ./*.deb

and then use it as before.

N0rbert
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As emma is olden but golden, one guy at github started to port it to gtk3 a few years ago. Check out: https://github.com/trendfischer/emma/tree/gtk3

After download add pyparsing:

sudo apt install python-pyparsing

and make will succeed. On my system, executing ./emma brought the UI up but MySQL connections are not working as the 2.x python-mysqldb dependency is lacking. :(

For long I was relying on replacement application DBeaver and was unhappy with it every day (snap install dbeaver-ce). But since the accepted answer (see above) was updated by its author, this install-scheme now works and I'm able to use emma on 20.04 again.

isync
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See if you have these installed:

Dependent Packages 
python
python-glade2
python-gtk2
python-mysqldb

Then try the following commands.

sudo apt-get update -y

This will update your package repositories.

sudo apt-get install -y emma

This may help...

Priyanshu Rai
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    Your answer is great, but these packages were removed from the 20.04 LTS repository. So they can't be installed using apt command. Only manual downloading will help. – N0rbert Aug 10 '20 at 08:30