Thread: Cannot Install Python 2.5 on Nokia n800
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2007-10-03 , 14:52
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#18
Originally Posted by frethop View Post
Again, Nope!

First, the library does not appear in libs under the Application Manager.
It's in 'Section: libs' in the control file in the .deb.

Second, if I try apt-get in the xterm, here's what I get as a result:

Nokia-N800-39:~# apt-get install libffi4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package libffi4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libffi4 has no installation candidate

It's possible my sources.list file is not set up correctly. Where did you get the libffi4?
I downloaded it from the link of a few posts above so that I could unpack it with dpkg-deb and take a look at the control file.

In any case, if you're accessing it from a repository then you can also do 'apt-cache show libffi4' to get an idea of what it requires etc.

EDIT: You can also do 'apt-cache policy libffi4' to display which repository you're getting it from. This could be useful in case there are several variants around.
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Last edited by TA-t3; 2007-10-03 at 14:54.