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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement <jean-baptiste.lallement@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2014 04:53 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> Brian Murray:
> > How did you come to this conclusion? The package does exist in the
> > repositories.
>
> Alberto Salvia Novella:
>  > Being in Trusty with all the repositories enabled, by writing
>  > "sdformat" in the Synaptic Package Manager application and seeing it
>  > only returns "sdformat-doc".
>
> In fact, typing into the Terminal "sudo apt-get install sdformat"
> doesn't work too.
the package name in the url is a source package and apt-get install 
takes a binary package as argument which is often not the same name.

> Is there something I don't know about package management?
A reliable source of information on packages is launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sdformat
which will show you that 1.4.11-1 is available on Trusty.

or alternatively rmadison (from devscripts):
⟫ rmadison sdformat
 sdformat | 1.4.11-1 | trusty/universe          | source
 sdformat | 2.0.0-4  | utopic/universe          | source
 sdformat | 2.0.0-5  | utopic-proposed/universe | source


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