Re: Can't find libz1

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

Debian Mail <debian@sos.ethz.ch> wrote:
>zlib-bin wants libz1:
>
> zlib-bin depends on libz1; however:
>  Package libz1 is not installed.
>
>But I can't find libz1 in any of the distributins...

It's a virtual package, so look at the Provides: field:

[cjw44@riva ~]$ grep-available -FProvides libz1
Package: zlib1g
Priority: standard
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 87
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.1.3-5
Provides: libz1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
Conflicts: zlib1 (<= 1:1.0.4-7)
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libs/zlib1g_1.1.3-5.deb
Size: 41780
MD5sum: ad4b010417e930f17d324c6a91559848
Description: compression library - runtime
 zlib is a library implementing the deflate compression method found
 in gzip and pkzip.  This package includes the shared library.

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]