Re: webkit2 and copying

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2017.06.07 07:56, Andreas Schmidt wrote:
First - I realize I misread something in your original message, which  
slightly misdirected my earlier reply.  You (and I) are currently using  
webkit2.  I believe only webkit is deprecated, not webkit2 (but the  
numbering certainly leads to some confusion, as I remember.)  Then, you  
were asking what might be different with gtkhtml4.

[snip...]
> > > # grep-available -P gtkhtml | grep ^Package
> > > Package: libgtkhtml-4.0-common
> > > Package: libgtkhtml-4.0-0
> > > Package: libgtkhtml-editor-4.0-0
> > > Package: libgtkhtml3.14-19
> > > # apt-get install libgtkhtml-4.0-0
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > E: Unable to locate package libgtkhtml-4.0-0
> > > E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libgtkhtml-4.0-0'
> > > E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtkhtml-4.0-0'
> > > #
> > gtkhtml-4.10-0 is available for me under Gentoo.  I don't have an  
> > ubuntu system handy, but can you try something like "apt search  
> > gtkhtml" ?  I'm not familiar with grep-available, but it appears it  
> > is using a database out-of-sync with your actual system.  (No, I  
> > have no idea which is or isn't correct - but re-syncing both of them  
> > might be a first start, although I have no idea how to do that.)
> According to the man page, "[t]he  programs  grep-available,   
> grep-status, grep-aptavail and grep-debtags are aliases of (actually,  
> symbolic links to) grep-dctrl.  These aliases use as their default  
> input the dpkg(1) available and status files, the apt-cache dumpavail  
> output and the debtags dumpavail output, respectively." So there  
> should be no second database that could be out of sync. Nevertheless,  
> with your approach I can find nothing relevant:
So these are specific to distributions that use dpkg/apt and friends,  
which is why I don't have any of them.   However, I still don't see how  
your grep-available example found libgtkhtml-4.0-0 but apt-get install  
did not find it.  (I would ask if by any strange chance, it is already  
installed, except you said that ./configure didn't find it.)  This  
seems like a question for your distribution.  One off the wall  
suggestion - what happens with "apt-get install gtkhtml" in case the  
version numbers are not considered part of the package name?

> # apt search gtkhtml
> Sorting... Done
> Full Text Search... Done

Jack