libsodium mess

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Jan 19 22:30:30 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> kurt at roeckx.be said:
> >> Running Wheezy, I take it?
> > It's libsodium-dev 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Works on Jessie.  Doesn't work on Wheezy.
>   E: Unable to locate package libsodium-dev
> 
> Works on Ubuntu 16.04.1, Doesn't work on 14.04.5
>   E: Unable to locate package libsodium-dev

Both those failures are expected.  INSTALL has pointers to manual
installation instructions.

Of course, if we can detect and outomate either of these cases, that would be
good. The lsb_release utility could be helpful.
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