How to Install NextCloud Desktop Client on Debian 9 Stretch
This tutorial will show you how to install NextCloud desktop client on Debian 9 Stretch. If you want to know how to install NextCloud server on Debian 9, please check out the following tutorial.
Note: Starting with Debian 10, the NextCloud desktop client is included in the default repository. You can easily install it by running this command in root privilege: apt install nextcloud-desktop.
Installing NextCloud Desktop Client on Debian 9 via PPA
The NextCloud development team provides an official PPA for Ubuntu. It can also be used to install NextCloud desktop client on Debian 9. You can run add-apt-repository command on Debian 9. It’s provided by the software-properties-common package, but it won’t work like Ubuntu out of the box. I will show you how to manually add NextCloud PPA on Debian. Steps are described below.
Open up a terminal window and switch to root user.
su -
Then create a new source list file for NextCloud Linux client.
nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nextcloud-client.list
Copy the following two lines and paste them into the source list file. Note that for Debian 9, you will need to use the zesty package for compatibility.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu zesty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu zesty main
Save and close the file. Then we need to download and import the signing key to our Debian 9 system so that the integrity of software packages downloaded from this PPA can be verified by APT package manager. Run the following commands. dirmngr is needed to access key servers.
apt install dirmngr apt-key adv --recv-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com AD3DD469
Now update local package index and install NextCloud desktop client.
apt update apt install nextcloud-client
Once installed, you can start NextCloud client from application menu or use the following command in terminal as a standard user.
nextcloud
Enter your NextCloud server address.
Enter NextCloud username and password.
Next, set up local folder options.
Run NextCloud Client on Startup
To enable auto start at boot time, simply go to NextCloud settings, then select General tab and check Launch on System Startup.
That’s it! I hope this tutorial helped you install NextCloud desktop client on Debian 9 Stretch. As always, if you found this post useful, then subscribe to our free newsletter to get new tutorials.
Very helpful and straightforward. Works on Debian Buster too. Thanks for the HOWTO!
Hi,
I tried to install the client just like described but i get this error:
“Package nextcloud-client is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source.”
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance.
That is strange. If you have correctly added the PPA on Debian 9, your system should be able to find the
nextcloud-clientpackage.If the PPA isn’t added, then running
apt install nextcloud-clientwill tell youE: Unable to locate package nextcloud-client.Hi Xiao and thanks for the promt reply. This is the response i get:
“E: Package ‘nextcloud-client’ has no installation candidate.”
I followed your exact steps.
If you are using Debian 9 and followed my instructions to the letter but still get this error, I can’t figure out what’s wrong.
Maybe you forgot to update package list.
If you are not root, you can switch to root using this command:
Then run
Hi Xiao, i did update but I’ll try with root and let you know.
Did it with root but still nothing. This is the output:
“Package nextcloud-client is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘nextcloud-client’ has no installation candidate”
Can you run
and paste the output here?
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu zesty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu zesty main
Could be that the source is not trusted? In that case how should I proceed?
The file is correct. So I have no idea why your system can’t find
nextcloud-client. You can use owncloud-client, which is compatible with Nextcloud.Hi,
Thanks a lot for your tutorial. Personally the installation fail at “apt-key adv –recv-key –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com AD3DD469” stage. Console output goes like:
and after a while end with:
( : connexion ended by time limit expiration)
Any idea of what this could be about? Is the server ok?
have a good one!
The server is OK, but there’s a connection problem between your computer and the server. You can try using a VPN to fix the error.
Thanks! I now use your instructions with Debian 10 (buster/testing) and the Ubuntu 19.04 disco sources, works the same!
It comes with the newer nextcloud-client 2.5.2.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu disco main
This problem crops up frequently in tutorials that require keys to be imported. It can be caused by ports being limited by a firewall. A safer version to use is:
apt-key adv –recv-key –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 AD3DD469
which only requires that port 80 is open for outgoing traffic – nearly always true.
the zesty distro seems no longer updated it’s better to use the xenial distro, also based on debian 9 and updated to the latest nextcloud version
sorry… that doesn’t work…
Or, you can upgrade Debian 9 to Debian 10. The
nextcloud-desktopclient is in Buster repository.I’ll do that when the printer drivers are updated, don’t understand why stopped working
This has the drawback that the nextcloud-desktop in the Buster repository seems not to include nextcloudcmd, which is the only reason I want the client 🙁
#apt install nextcloud-client
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
nextcloud-client : Depends: libnextcloudsync0 (= 2.3.3-20171224.060956~zesty1) but 2.6.1-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
Are you using Debian Bullseye?
Starting with Debian 10, the NextCloud desktop client is included in the default repository. You can easily install it by running this command in root privilege:
apt install nextcloud-desktop.I had this problem too, despite the comment above that the procedure works for Buster. And, as mentioned above, the nextcloud-desktop in the Buster repo does not have nextcloudcmd. How is it possible to install nextcloudcmd on to a Buster server? Anyone know?
Spoke too soon. The first suggestion from the installer (re libnextcloudsync0 not installed) is to leave nextcloud-client uninstalled. If that solution is rejected, then a second solution is offered which installs the missing item. This seems to work. It also installs nextcloudcmd which is what I wanted. Has anyone experimented to find out whether nextcloudcmd is totally stand alone or needs other stuff? Installing nextcloud-client brings in a whole lot of desktop stuff that is not wanted on a headless server. It would be really great to be able to install nextcloudcmd with a minimum of other software. (Pity I couldn’t edit my reply!)