On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:46 -0500, Ashivni Shekhawat wrote: > Hi! > I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my > machine; however I get the following error: > > # apt-get install qwtplot3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find package qwtplot3d > > The package qwtplot3d is available on ftp.debian.org at > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qwtplot3d/ if you look at the .deb files in that directory you will see that there is no *binary* package by the name "qwtplot3d". qwtplot3d is the *source* package for a bunch of binary packages (their corresponding files all begin with libqwtplot3d and end in .deb). also if you look you will see that there are only amd64 and i386 binary packages. if you are running a different architecture than those, you will have to wait for the debian build system to create the packages or compile them yourself. -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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