Re: cannot find and install some dev packages

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

On 20/08/11 01:42 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> 2011-08-20 06:08, H.S. skrev:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am trying to install the following dev packages but aptitude keeps
>> telling me it can't find them:
>> libopencv-highgui-dev
>> libglew1.5-dev
>>
>> The package's developer information, however, lists them (I have Testing
>> on an amd64).
>>
>> Could somebody tell me what I am missing here?
>>
> 
> Where do you find them listed?

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libhighgui-dev
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libglew1.5-dev

> 
> I find it (the first one you mention) as being available in
> experimental, not in testing, and I also see that in my package manager.

Yeah, its developer page says it should have entered in testing now.


> 
> Do you have a line for experimental packages in your
> /etc/apt/sources.list ?

No yet, but I was seriously considering including unstable or
experimental sources in sources.list.

> 
> (In case you did not know, you should be careful when upgrading parts of
> your system to experimental, unless you know what you are doing.)

I have done it in the past a few times, usually under similar circumstances.

Thanks.




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