finding/installing "virtual packages"

[Lentes, Bernd]

----- On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> i found the package on
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libavcodec57&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all.
>> It is included in "yakkety". What does that mean ? Is that a repository ?
> 
> Yakkety is the code name for 15.10, if you are using 16.04 you are
> using the Xenial repositories.
> 
> That suggests the deb file you have got is for 15.10 not 16.04.  What
> is it that you are trying to install?
> 
> Colin
> 

Hi Colin,

thanks for your answer. I thought yakkety is 16.10 ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Package_classification_and_support
It's a VoIP client, called ekiga. The deb files are from here: http://eugen.dedu.free.fr/ekiga/

Bernd
 

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