Installing with Ubuntu 19.04

[jms3000]

I wanted to try Domoticz. I went to the website and saw the installation instructions: "curl -sSL install.domoticz.com | sudo bash"
Wow, I thought, this is nice.

The output of the installation script was:

::: Your system is up to date! Continuing with Domoticz installation...
::: Checking for apt-utils... installed!
::: Checking for whiptail... installed!
::: Checking for git... installed!
::: Checking for curl... installed!
::: Checking for libcurl3..

Nothing more. What the heck? I tried again. The script just stopped. So I downloaded the installer and debugged it. It turned out that it writes the error messages to dev/null? why?
The error message was:

Package libcurl3 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
However the following packages replace it:
libcurl4:i386 libcurl4

E: Package 'libcurl3' has no installation candidate

In Ubuntu 18 and 19 there is no libcurl3, only libcurl4 and it is not possible to install libcurl3. Very strange. I googled the problem and people said: compile Domoticz from source. Uhh!? Ok, I'l try it. I cloned the git and startet "cmake".

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:2 (cmake_minimum_required):
CMake 3.14.0 or higher is required. You are running version 3.13.4

Don't laught now. Googling again what this means. Result: domoticz wiki says I have to download cmake from the project site and compile it by myself? This is not true. What comes next? Compiling the linux kernels from scratch? I cannot believe this...

[ben53252642]

Try changing the script to use libcurl4, it may simply work.

[jms3000]

Thanks that worked. So th script could be improved by writing out the error message and by testing if a libcurl4 is installed.

[waaren]

Thanks that worked. So the script could be improved by writing out the error message and by testing if a libcurl4 is installed.

Can you please report this on the github issue list and include your proposed solution? (as code snippet) It might help other users in future.