[ocaml-platform] opam-in-a-box

[Robert Muller]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Robert Muller <robert.muller2 at gmail.com>
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 <yallop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8 January 2015 at 03:41, Robert Muller <robert.muller2 at gmail.com>
>> 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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