the package is not being installed

[AlexMoiseevs]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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:
minecraft-overviewer : Depends: python3 (< 3.6) but 3.10.6-1~22.04 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[AlexMoiseevs]

root@maintest:/home/user# python3 -V
Python 3.6.15

[CounterPillow]

don't use overviewer anymore, it's unmaintained

[kbeldyga]

Had the same issue on Ubuntu 22.04 with python 3.10 installed, building overviewer from source worked for me:
http://docs.overviewer.org/en/latest/building/#linux

[ajh123]

The main README states ..

PLEASE NOTE: Overviewer is currently unmaintained. PRs will not be merged and issues will not be addressed. The website and repository will remain online and accessible.

Instead please use the new working (“successor”) version of Overviewer supporting 1.20 worlds and textures.
https://github.com/GregoryAM-SP/The-Minecraft-Overviewer

[Gregory-AM]

The Successor version currently doesn't have a version supporting Linux, as I don't have a Linux Machine or install to build a version for it on, same goes for Mac Systems.

[ajh123]

You could repost this issue on there then because it will never be fixed by the original :(

[Gregory-AM]

I'm the dev & maintainer for the successor version.

Since the only operating system I have at my disposal is Windows, it's currently the only version I'm "Supporting" at this moment. At least until I get my hands on a second SSD for a Linux installation, or if I ever touch a Mac (which is highly unlikely to happen) because of their price. Unless there's a way to package Overviewer for every system using pyinstaller.

However the option to still build it on the users operating system is still an option, which can be found in the Overviewers original docs. Using VSCode is the best option in my opinion to build Overviewer from the source I provide.

[ajh123]

@Gregory-AM You do not need to get a second SSD for Linux if you have Windows because you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux, it's free if you have Windows 10 or 11! WSL allows you to run Linux and Windows side by side. Once WSL is installed you can install different Linux distros from the Microsoft store. You can run Linux GUI programs that appear on the same screen as Windows.

[cliffmeyers]

+1 for WSL - I've been using it with Overviewer for a couple of years and it works really well. I seem to recall a number of users mentioning running OV in Docker, so Linux support would be important to that group too.

[Gregory-AM]

@ajh123, I know it's 7 months later.
But, I've finally understood GitHub Actions enough to create an automatic build for Linux.

https://github.com/GregoryAM-SP/The-Minecraft-Overviewer/releases/tag/v1.20.4