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Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable



well my sarge is fresh too, and my sources.list, as i posted on debian-user, is:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

-- Fred

On 7/27/05, Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> 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
> Okay no problem, then we could use:
> 
>         root@lisa:/# apt-get install lesstif2-dev
>         Reading Package Lists... Done
>         Building Dependency Tree... Done
>         The following extra packages will be installed:
>         [....]
> 
> 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
> 
> So you should really check your sources list and if you really have a sarge
> system and not sid/etch.
> 
> Best wishes
> Alex
> 
> 
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    -- Fred



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