[maemo-developers] apt-get; gstreamer-dev; "pkg-config has no installation candidate" -- addon

[From: Johannes Hoffmann]

addon:
executable "pkg-config" indeed exists and is linked to the host-system.

I solved this problem, by faking a pkg-config package (empty packages with 
pkg-config-description) and installed it via 'dpkg -i'.
Then 'apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev' worked and I 
compiled my gstreamer-plugin now!

Looks like this is actually a bug in the installer-script (should 
pkg-config be "installed" via a virtual empty package?)

This had been an issue before in Jan 2007, it seems:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/maemo/developers/14191

Any comments? Does nobody use gstreamer-dev? Can anyone confirm this 
behaviour?

Johannes



maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote on 13/12/2007 09:56:42 AM:

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> * summary: gstreamer-dev cannot be installed due to package 
> dependency to pkg-config. But "pkg-config has no installation candidate" 
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> Hi, 
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> I would like to built a gstreamer-plugin for the N800 from source. 
> Therefore I need gstreamer-dev installed. 
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> I'm running scratchbox 1.0.7 on a debian host. 
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> * This command works fine: 
> apt-get install gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 
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> * This does not: 
> apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev 
> => Message: ... "pkg-config but it is not installable" 
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> ==> apt-get install pkg-config 
> ---- log start --- 
> [sbox-testtarget: ~/gst-mpsdec-plugin] > apt-get install pkg-config 
> Reading Package Lists... Done 
> Building Dependency Tree... Done 
> Package pkg-config 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 pkg-config has no installation candidate 
> ---- log end --- 
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> "Package pkg-config has no installation candidate" ... But Why? 
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> Am I missing a repository? 
> ---- sources.list of scratchbox --- 
> deb http://repository.maemo.org/ bora free non-free 
> deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras bora free non-free 
> ---- sources.list of scratchbox end --- 
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
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