Albretch Mueller wrote: > I think pcompress their license > > http://moinakg.github.io/pcompress/ > > is compatible with Debian but for whatever reason you can't install > it from the repositories
The license appears to be LGPL v3 ( http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/pcompress ) which makes it eligible. You could send an RFP -- request for package -- via this process: https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > > # apt-get install pcompress > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to locate package pcompress You actually want: apt search pcompress which will tell you the same thing, but could be helpful when generally looking for software. > I have been trying to install pcompress on Debian the monkey way, but > I am getting errors I can not make much sense of: > > # uname -a > Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 > (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > # ./config --disable-wavpack > Checking for GCC ... > Checking for 32-bit/64-bit platform ... > Checking OS ... > Checking GCC version ... > Checking for CPU SSE version ... sse4.2 > Checking for CPU AVX version ... None > Checking for Yasm ... > Checking for OpenSSL ... > ERROR: OpenSSL libraries not detected. > > # apt-get install openssl > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > openssl is already the newest version (1.1.0f-3+deb9u2). > openssl set to manually installed. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 187 not upgraded. > > # ./config --disable-wavpack > Checking for GCC ... > Checking for 32-bit/64-bit platform ... > Checking OS ... > Checking GCC version ... > Checking for CPU SSE version ... sse4.2 > Checking for CPU AVX version ... None > Checking for Yasm ... > Checking for OpenSSL ... > ERROR: OpenSSL libraries not detected. > # As has been mentioned, you want apt install libssl-dev to get the development version. -dsr-
