How do I start nextclouid client on debian?

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I tried to install the client with apt-get, but that did not work, so I used snap.

snap install nextcloud
nextcloud 16.0.5snap3 from Nextcloud✓ installed

No indication of where is was installed or how to start it. I don’t think it was really installed. Only the installer was installed.

I found nextcloud.manual-install in /snap/bin/ so I ran that with the two parameters.

nextcloud.manual-install myusername mypassword
Nextcloud was successfully installed

I still cannot find a client.

$nextcloud
bash: nextcloud: command not found

I am using MATE as my DE, it is not in my menus.

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The version number (16.0.5) suggests that you installed the Nextcloud server and not the client. I don’t know if there is a snap of the client but there is an official AppImage and flathub offers a Flatpak.

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I tried to follow the install instructions here:

It went well until the end:

#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.

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Nextcloud Desktop Client is in the official Debian Repo.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/nextcloud-desktop

You only need: #apt install nextcloud-desktop

befor you must delete the ubuntu ppa and purge nextcloud-client

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