Debian fish binary package difficult to install #7845
Description
If I want to install fish on Debian, www.fishshell.com points me to the Suse download page. If I use the "Debian / Grab packages directly" option, the package I download does not install on Debian 10. That is because the platform-specific binary fish package depends on the fish-common package, but there's no way to download the correct version of the fish-common package on that page.
The same problem affects the similar Debian link from the Development Binaries page.
Workarounds:
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Use the "subscribe" option.
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Manually download the
fish-commonpackage and install it together with thefishpackage. It is not easy to find, but here are the links: Debian 10, Debian 9. These links are likely to remain valid for any future Fish 3.x releases.The installation command I used was
sudo dpkg -i fish*3.2.1*.deb
I'm not sure if there's a way to add fish-common and the instruction to install it together with fish to the opensuse.org download page, but it would be nice.