problem with liblz4 install {solved sort of]

[Mark Barton]

On 3/21/20 11:06 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 09:13:33AM -0400, Mark Barton wrote:
>> I am trying to compile a program that is requires liblz4 and gives an error
>> that it cannot find -llz4. I tried to install lz4, lz4-dev and liblz4-1
> There is no package called "lz4-dev".  Do you mean "liblz4-dev"?  That's
> the package you should need for this.
>
> Can you please copy and paste the end of the compile attempt, including
> both the full compiler command line that's being run and the exact error
> message?  It's important to copy and paste this exactly; don't try to
> paraphrase it.
>
Yep I left off the lib prefix but I did try to 
install and apt said it was the latest version.

Well the problem was that the liblz4 could not be 
found. I ended up building the source from  
www.lz4.com  and installing from there. My 
compile  worked just fine. I still don't know why 
apt insisted that I had the latest version when 
the library was nowhere to be found. Could this be 
a packaging issue?

Thanks for responding.

Mark