Re: configure vs debian

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: no, and i have no installation candidates for these packages... ,---- | sanmartino:~# apt-get install xaw3d xaw3d-dev | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree... Done | Package xaw3d is not available, but is referred to by another package. | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or | is only available from another source | E: Package xaw3d has no installation candidate | sanmartino:~# `---- otoh, searching for xaw packages, i get what follows ,---- | dpkg -l '*xaw*' | Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | | | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed | |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: | uppercase=bad) | ||/ Name Version Description | +++-================-================-================================================ | ii libxaw6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library (version 6) | un libxaw6-dev <none> (no description available) | ii libxaw7 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library | pn libxaw7-dev <none> (no description available) | ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library | ii libxaw8-dev 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library development files | un xaw3d <none> (no description available) | un xaw3d-dev <none> (no description available) | ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-10 Xaw3d widget set | ii xaw3dg-dev 1.5+E-10 Xaw3d widget set development package | un xaw95 <none> (no description available) | un xawtv <none> (no description available) | sanmartino:~# `---- it seems that i have installed three different athena libraries, and one set of development files, all sporting the same version number... and one xaw3d library with the relevant headers, and i built xemacs several times linking to the xaw3dg library well, i have a working emacs and i'm happy, but i'm still confused...