Can't get Liferea to run uGet in Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME

[BillDietrich]

Liferea 1.12.7, and I think it's a snap app. "whereis liferea" gives "liferea: /snap/bin/liferea /snap/bin/liferea.liferea-add-feed".

uget-gtk 2.2.2, and I think it's also a snap app. "whereis uget-gtk" gives "uget-gtk: /usr/bin/uget-gtk /usr/share/man/man1/uget-gtk.1.gz".

Ubuntu 20.04 desktop, GNOME DE. "uname -a" gives "Linux laptop1 5.4.0-28-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 22 17:40:10 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

I can run uGet from Terminal via "uget-gtk SOMEURL" and it works fine.

But nothing I set in Liferea's Tools / Preferences / Enclosures / Downloading Enclosures will get Liferea to launch uGet successfully. I've tried every form of referencing uget or uget-gtk that I can think of, and when I try to "Save as" an enclosure, I always get "Command failed: ..." with a valid form of the uGet command shown.

No error messages in "dmesg -T" or "sudo journalctl --pager-end".

[BillDietrich]

I can't get ANY download method to run. Transmission gives same kind of "Command failed ..." error. So does trying a custom command such as "wget". The commands look fine, and they work when run from CLI. Something is wrong with how Liferea launches commands.

When I try gwget as the download method, I get this in the system journal:

May 03 21:25:30 laptop1 liferea_liferea.desktop[61652]:
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.gwget.ApplicationService was not provided by any .service files

Last release of SteadyFlow was in 2012; maybe it should be removed from the Download selection list.

[almejo]

Hi. I am the maintainer of the snap package. I wasn't aware of that. I will investigate this bug this week.

[lwindolf]

@almejo Thanks for investigating!!!

[almejo]

I hope to fix it this week :D

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[BillDietrich]

I have switched to the deb version of Liferea on Ubuntu 20.04

[almejo]

Maybe is the best for now

Snap apps are isolated from other apps, so it can not execute external apps. I think I can use some workarounds. I will post soon if I find something. Maybe include wget inside the snap

[lwindolf]

@almejo Thanks for the feedback!

@BillDietrich Closing this as this is not a problem in the upstream project.

[bbhtt]

Just a note, I added a patch to the flatpak package to make aria2c the default downloader flathub/net.sourceforge.liferea@b04ecb0 and added aria2c to the package last week.

So downloading enclosures should work fine in the Flathub version! The default download directory is ~/Downloads or $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR if it is defined.

aria2c is the only the cli program in the list and is easiest to package/makes sense to put it in the sandbox.