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pantherman007
May 17th, 2009, 03:45 AM
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place - it may be a beginner question or belong elsewhere.

I think I need to override the version of a package that I'm trying to install with apt-get. I'm typing:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-dev

But instead of installing libcurl4-dev, Ubuntu overrides what I entered and instead goes with:

"Note, selecting libcurl4-gnutls-dev instead of libcurl4-dev"

Problem is, XBMC is specifically looking for libcurl4-dev and segfaults.

How can I force apt-get to install what I want it to instead of what it wants to? I'm running 9.04.

Thanks -

x33a
May 17th, 2009, 04:24 AM
is that package available in the repos?

try

aptitude show libcurl4-dev

if it shows up, then


sudo aptitude install libcurl4-dev