On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:35 AM Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote:
> On 12/11/19 4:39 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I installed the package libmypaint1.3.0 on my debian 10 system. > > Best to copy & paste these things - I assume you mean libmypaint-1.3-0 > > > > > I can tell it is installed because when i run the command > > sudo apt-get install libmypaint-1.3.0 > > Different again :-) > > > the system responds with "libmypaint-1.3-0 is already the newest > version". > > > > It also says "libmypaint-1.3-0 set to manually installed", which i do > > not know how to interpret. > > > > Nevertheless, if i run the command > > pkg-config --exists --print-errors "libmypaint >= 1.3.0" > > i get the message "No package 'libmypaint' found" (and exit status 1). > > Note that the package name is "libmypaint-1.3-0", not "libmypaint", so > that's what I would expect. Not that I'm familiar with pkg-config. > > Richard > > Hi Richard, Thanks for your mail! You are right that i should have used copy/paste! Actually, i normally do exactly that, to avoid any chance of error. Presumably there are two notions of package at work here: one with debian names and one with pkg-config names (perhaps they could be called "developer" names)? Per The Wanderer (thanks again!) one can find the debian package name with apt-file, and per Joe P (thanks Joe!) it would probably suffice just for me to just install the developer name that pkg-config is wanting (so that the right debian package will then be installed which the pkg-config package depends on). I appreciate everybody's help here! dan
