Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

[Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@netspace.net.au>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:17, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Frederico Rodrigues Abraham schrieb am Mittwoch, den 27. Juli 2005:
> > i am using debian stable... (sarge)
>
> Then I'm sorry, I tried to reproduce the problem, here my results on a
> fresh installed sarge chroot:
>
> 	root@lisa:/# apt-get install libmotif-dev
> 	Reading Package Lists... Done
> 	Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 	Package libmotif-dev 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:
> 	  lesstif2-dev lesstif-dev
> 	E: Package libmotif-dev has no installation candidate
[snip]
> Works no problem. And for completeness my sources.list:
> 	root@lisa:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> 	deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
> 	deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
> 	deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main

libmotif-dev is in non-free.
>
> So you should really check your sources list and if you really have a
> sarge system and not sid/etch.
>
> Best wishes
> Alex