[SOLVED] How to install libevent2 on Debian 6?

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 06:47 PM

If I do "sudo apt-get install libevent-dev" it installs v1.4. If I do "sudo apt-get install libevent2-dev" or "sudo apt-get install libevent2" then it tells me "Unable to locate package".

TobiSGD · 05-30-2013, 07:20 PM

libevent-2 is for Debian 6 only available from the backports repository. How to configure and use it can be read here: http://backports.debian.org/
Since Debian 6 will only get support for less than a year now you may want to consider to Debian 7, which also has libevent-2 by default.

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Since Debian 6 will only get support for less than a year now you may want to consider to Debian 7, which also has libevent-2 by default.

Really? Deb 7 only came out earlier this month.

In any case, yea, I already intended to, I just haven't yet.

Quote:

libevent-2 is for Debian 6 only available from the backports repository. How to configure and use it can be read here: http://backports.debian.org/

I followed the Instructions link on that page and, as it indicated, I added the following line to my '/etc/apt/sources.list':

Code:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Then I did "sudo apt-get update" and tried again (using "-t squeeze-backports" this time), but it still isn't working. I also did all the same with "aptitude" insetad of "apt-get". Still no dice.

evo2 · 05-30-2013, 08:23 PM

Hi,

what do you mean by

Quote:

still isn't working

?

Evo2.

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 08:39 PM

On apt-get: "E: Unable to locate package libevent2"

On aptitude: "Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "libevent2""

I also tried libevent2-dev, libevent-2 and libevent-2-dev.

evo2 · 05-30-2013, 08:49 PM

Hi,

really. What happens if you do the following;

Code:

apt-cache search libevent-2

?

It should be there since it is listed at:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-b...libevent-2.0-5

Evo2.

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 09:30 PM

I get nothing from that. No output.

evo2 · 05-30-2013, 09:34 PM

Hi,

sounds like apt doesn't know about the backports repo. What is the output from "apt-get update"?

Evo2.

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 09:49 PM

Hmm, maybe there's something wrong with the server. There's different results I'll get running that same command different times:

Code:

Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release.gpg                           
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release.gpg                           
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release                               
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release                               
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg                                   
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en                          
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US                      
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release                                      
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources                                  
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main i386 Packages                
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main i386 Packages        
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg                                 
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 128.30.2.36 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  404  Not Found [IP: 128.30.2.36 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

And a couple times I even got this:

Code:

Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en             
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US           
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release                           
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources                       
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
Ign http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release                               
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze Release                       
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main Sources                          
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main i386 Packages                    
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main Sources                  
Hit http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main i386 Packages            
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg                                 
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze-backports Release.gpg
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main Translation-en
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main Translation-en_US
  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/Release.gpg  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2  Could not resolve 'ftp.us.debian.org'

W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

evo2 · 05-30-2013, 09:52 PM

Hi,

yes, so you either need to fix your sources.list or find another mirror etc.

Evo2.

Abscissa256 · 05-30-2013, 11:07 PM

ftp.ca.debian.org is working, thanks.