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Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable

Subject: Re: problem installing libmotif-dev on debian sarge stable
From: Andrew Vaughan <ajv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:30:06 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.devel
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:17, Alexander Wirt 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
[snip]
> 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

libmotif-dev is in non-free.
>
> 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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