Op 18-09-16 om 16:16 schreef Michael Fothergill:
I tried using gdebi to install xaralx deb file. The error I get seems to suggest I need a newer version of the libjpeg package than I currently have...... See here: root@rhinoceros:/home/mikef/Documents/xaralx# gdebi xaralx_0.7r1785-7_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done Building data structures... Done This package is uninstallable Dependency is not satisfiable: libjpeg8 (>= 8c) I am a bit puzzled here.... If this version of xaralx was abandoned in 2014 surely gdebi would be asking me to install older versions of dependent packages rather then bang up to date ones?
The libjpeg8 package has been in and out of Testing several times since early 2015. It was removed just before Jessie went stable, so it ended up missing: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libjpeg8
My current Testing setup started years ago, so the last/latest version of that package (8d1-2) is still installed. It doesn't cause any problems here. I'm not sure exactly why it was removed from Testing (no time to investigate at present - sorry), but it could have something to do with libjpeg/libjpeg-turbo conflicts.
You could pick it up from the snapshot archive as well and try to install it manually (http://snapshot.debian.org/package/libjpeg8/8d1-2/#libjpeg8_8d1-2). Don't proceed if doing that causes lots of other packages to be removed, though.
Regards, Frank