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Masyaf
Masyaf

Reputation: 841

Can not install pkg-config

I am running ubuntu server 12.04. I want to compile Monetdb on Virtual box, but get error that I have not installed pkg-config. When I use sudo apt-get install pkg-config I get error:

Package pkg-config is not available, but is referred to by another package. This mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'pkg-config' has no installation candidate.

I did not have this problem on 14.04. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3811

Answers (2)

Jiang Wang
Jiang Wang

Reputation: 1

This is an old post, but just put my findings here in case it will help someone.

In my case, I tried on debian, and the issue is that /etc/apt/sources.list missing one repo. I compared it with a good one and add the missing one and it works.

Upvotes: 0

Masyaf
Masyaf

Reputation: 841

Fixed a problem by:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-key --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys KEY
sudo apt-get update

Though not sure why it happened.

Upvotes: 1

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