I am using a "live" version of Ubuntu on my computer, 20.04LTS. I want to install DDrescue. I have run these terminal commands in order:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gddrescue

I get this back:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: ddrescue-gui : Depends: python-wxtools but it is not going to be installed Depends: python2.7 but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

What do I do now? I tried "sudo install python-wxtools" and "sudo install python2.7" and both don't work.

I have 0 experience with linux and it is frustrating the heck out of me.

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Please note that ddrescue-gui package is not presented in official repositories.

To install this package you should connect computer to internet and then add third-party repository, really in this case - Personal Package Archive (PPA) from launchpad. The complete reproducible method then will be the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hamishmb/myppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gddrescue ddrescue-gui

To launch the application use its launcher in the menu named DDRescue-GUI or python3 /usr/share/ddrescue-gui/DDRescue_GUI.py command directly.

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