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Distribution: Debian Wheezy, Jessie, Sid/Experimental, playing with LFS.
Posts: 2,900
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Let's break this down cause from what you are saying here apt-get isn't the problem
Quote:
Originally Posted by shariefbe
I am trying to install my ncurses package in my Ubuntu Distro.
Your ncurses package? where do you have it? Is it in a folder already on your machine or is it in a repository somewhere?
Quote:
Originally Posted by shariefbe
I am getting the following error. But i dont know what is the problem. Can anyone help me
Code:
mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$ sudo apt-get install ncurses-develReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ncurses-devel
mamse@mamse-ThinkCentre-M80:~/linux-3.15.8$
This indicates a couple of possibilities.
1. The package is on your machine in a folder(e.g. downloads) and apt-get is not what you use for that.
2. The package is located in a repository and the fact apt-get cannot locates may indicate your sources.list is incorrect OR
3. the packages file for the repository is not correct.
Dealing with 1. If the file is on your machine you should either dpkg or gdebi.
dpkg is a command line tool so the command will be
Code:
dpkg -i ncurses-devel.deb
but you must be in the folder (so your terminal will have been cd'd to the folder already.
Dealing with 2. If 1 is not correct please post where this particular package you want is supposed to be located and post your sources.list
Dealing with 3. If 1 is not correct and 2 is partially correct leading to 3. you will have to downlaod the package manually and use dpkg to install it.
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