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Author: terryc
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] connman missing from system menu
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:20:13 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> connman is missing from the system menu of my 32-bit laptop running
> chimaera. I have installed:
>     connman-gtk    verion 1.1.1+git20180626.b72c6ab-2
>     connman    version 1.36-2.2
>     connman-ui    version 0-20150623-1
> The menu item is absent from the system menus in lxqt, and in xfce.
> What am I missing?

>
> History:
>     I upgraded from beowulf *without* first replacing wicd.
>     So I initially had no cnonectivity after the upgrade.
>     I instaled the connman packages by downlading them on another
> machine, transferring them cia USB stick, and installing on the
> laptop by using dpkg.

>
> (Another computer, where I installed connman before I upgraded to
> chimara, works fine, even though it has only the package connman
> installed, without connman-ui or connman-gtk or any of the other
> connman-related package. It has the "Connman UI Setup" menu item in
> teh "Internet" submenu when running LXQt.
>
> What am I missing? Why isn't there a menu item for connman in the
> system menu tree for either xfce or lxqt?
>
> Shouldn't connman contain the menu item?


As a guess, that is not the way to do it/instsall conman.

Try aptitude search connman
That will tell you if the system sees it as installed (i not p)

Then sudo apt install connman
with all the other bits you desire.

>
> -- hendrik
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