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Cannot install jevois-sdk-dev on Ubuntu 16.04

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Following instructions from https://jevois.usc.edu/ and Ubuntu 16.04

brian@brian-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install jevois-sdk-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 jevois-sdk-dev : Depends: jevois-sdk (>= 1.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

If I chase it down, the root cause looks to be Python3.6-Dev, becuase

brian@brian-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install jevois-platform
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 jevois-platform : Depends: python3.6-dev but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

python3.6 is not available in Ubuntu 16.04.3, only 3.5
asked Dec 1, 2017 in Programmer Questions by berickson (190 points)

1 Answer

+1 vote
 
Best answer
Thanks for noting, there indeed was a bug in the dependencies for Ubuntu 16.04

We just posted the latest JeVois 1.6.0 which should fix this.

Please see instructions at http://jevois.usc.edu
answered Dec 8, 2017 by JeVois (46,580 points)
selected Dec 8, 2017 by berickson
Thanks. It installed fully with the fix.
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