The One with the Thoughts of Frans

A year and a half ago I wrote about how to forwardport (reverse backport) Muon to Ubuntu 24.04. Unfortunately, in the meantime bitrot has occurred and it won’t just compile anymore. But I’m glad to have found a legend named Evgeniy Harchenko has created a Qt6 port. 😉

All you need to get back up and running is their version of QApt (diff) and their version of Muon (diff). Beware, some of the required packages have slightly different names than they do in Debian/Ubuntu.

It’s lovely to have Muon back.

Apparently Muon was kicked out of Debian/Ubuntu for being inactive, but since it’ll take a while longer for bitrot to set in, for now a quick forwardport will suffice.

Muon is nice for quickly being able to select multiple things at once and it searches while you type. They’re just a few little UI conveniences. Synaptic is seemingly identical, but there you have to authenticate even before performing any actions, which makes it much more annoying to use.

dget -xu http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/muon/muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1.dsc
cd muon-5.8.0
dch --local ~frenzie "forwardport"
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa
cd ..
sudo apt install ./muon_5.8.0-2ubuntu1~frenzie1_amd64.deb

For more info on how to backport packages, see this random search result.