finding/installing "virtual packages"

[Colin Law]

On 5 September 2016 at 20:19, Lentes, Bernd
<bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
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> ----- On Sep 5, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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> Hi Colin,
>
> thanks for your answer. I thought yakkety is 16.10 ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Package_classification_and_support

Yes you are right of course. One of these days I will get the hang of
the alphabet.

> It's a VoIP client, called ekiga. The deb files are from here: http://eugen.dedu.free.fr/ekiga/

Just going to have a look at that.

Colin