unable to install libxcomposite-dev

[Christoph Sturm]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:56:26 -0800, Daniel Stone
<daniel.stone at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:28:04PM +0100, Christoph Sturm wrote:
> 
> 
> > trying to install libxcomposite-dev results in this error:
> > zen# apt-get install libxcomposite-dev
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >   libxfixes-dev
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   libxcomposite-dev libxfixes-dev
> > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > 2 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B/324kB of archives.
> > After unpacking 651kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Yeah, looks like some misplaced files from way back that slipped through
> the net.  I've already prepared a package to fix this, and we'll look at
> it tomorrow, after more people have had a chance to test it.  In the
> meantime, I'll be providing an xcompmgr package for i386 at:
> deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/ xcompmgr/

ok, but my problem is with libxcomposite-dev. i am trying to compile
skippy-xd, and it needs xcomposite. and looking at the error message
it seems that the broken packange is libxfixes-dev.

regards
 chris