From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00B207F0BB for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:13:05 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.30,255,1470693600"; d="scan'208";a="234503671" Received: from meleze.ens.fr (HELO [129.199.99.114]) ([129.199.99.114]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 30 Aug 2016 11:13:03 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <396209A1-8A8B-468C-AC44-989F07CEC40B@gmail.com> From: Francois BERENGER Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:13:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <396209A1-8A8B-468C-AC44-989F07CEC40B@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Problems with conf-ncurses On 08/30/2016 10:36 AM, Leonardo Laguna Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install a few packages in one of my computers and they fail because conf-ncurses fails to install. I’m using linux, the distro called solus, and I’m pretty sure that I have installed nurses (libraries and development files). > > When conf-ncurses 1 fails to install it suggest using `opam depext conf-ncurses.1’ which fails with the message: > > > OPAM plugin depext is not installed. Install it on the current switch? [Y/n] y > The following dependencies couldn't be met: > - lwt -> conf-ncurses > Your request can't be satisfied: > - conf-ncurses is not available because your system doesn't comply with os = "darwin" | os = "freebsd" | os = "netbsd" | os = "openbsd". I suggest you open a bug here: https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository/issues Your exotic Linux distro isn't supported by this package (and, I guess, by any opam package): --- # opam info --raw conf-ncurses [...] depexts: [ [["alpine"] ["ncurses-dev"]] [["centos"] ["ncurses-devel"]] [["debian"] ["ncurses-dev"]] [["fedora"] ["ncurses-devel"]] [["nixpkgs"] ["ncurses"]] [["oraclelinux"] ["ncurses-devel"]] [["rhel"] ["ncurses-devel"]] [["ubuntu"] ["ncurses-dev"]] ] [...] --- There is always a price to pay when using exotic things. > No solution found, exiting > > Is there any way I can fix this and get my computer working again? > > Thank you in advance, > > Leonardo > -- Regards, Francois. "When in doubt, use more types"