On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Robert Muller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, thank you. I'm new to this, but I'm under the impression that this > package name isn't correct. I had already tried: > > sudo apt-get install libgnomecanvas2.0-dev > > but OPAM reported that there was no such package. > Ack. I meant that apt-get reported that there was no such package. It seems that there are inconsistencies in apt package names with respect to version numbers. Bob > So I tried a few other things, I think I installed: > > sudo apt-get install libgonecanvas2-0 > > which seemed to work, and I mistakenly assumed would get the -dev package > as well. So I just now did > > sudo apt-get install libgnomecanvas2-dev > > NB: there is no ".0". This worked and Kenichi's Universe package is now > working fine on ubuntu. > > Many thanks, > Bob Muller > > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:36 AM, Jeremy Yallop <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8 January 2015 at 03:41, Robert Muller <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > [ERROR] The compilation of conf-gnomecanvas.2 failed. >> >> The purpose of the conf-gnomecanvas package is to check that you have >> the appropriate system package for the libgnomecanvas library >> installed. The description (which you can see with 'opam show >> conf-gnomecanvas') says: >> >> This package can only install if libgnomecanvs2.0-dev is installed >> on the system. >> >> OPAM can also list the system package dependencies for you: >> >> opam list conf-gnomecanvas --external >> >> So the following should help: >> >> sudo apt-get install libgnomecanvas2.0-dev >> >> You might also be interested to know that the Universe Library now has >> OPAM support, so the following will install the OPAM dependencies and >> build and install the package: >> >> opam pin add universe https://github.com/kenichi-asai/Universe >> >> Finally:it's best not to run OPAM using 'sudo'. It's designed to run >> with normal user permissions and install files under your home >> directory. >> > >
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