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  Re: Help needed with new install
  By: Mark Acierno to Digital Man on Sat Jan 03 2026 08:30 am

 > Thank you for your assistance - and apologies for initially posting in the
 > wrong place. I tired the command which i think is appropriate to install the
 > prerequisites for the Pi:
 >
 > sudo apt install build-essential perl zip git gdb libarchive-dev
 > libncursesw5-dev libnspr4-dev libmosquitto-dev libsystemd-dev libcap-dev
 > xorg-dev libsdl2-dev libgtk-3-dev libglade2-dev python3 python-is-python3
 > lrzsz gkermit
 >
 >
 > and received the following error:
 > Note, selecting 'libncurses-dev' instead of 'libncursesw5-dev'
 > Error: Unable to locate package libglade2-dev

You can likely do fine without libglad2-dev, it's only need for the gtk/GUI
utils that most sysops don't ever use.

 > Should I down load each package individually?

Usually not necessary, but if none of the packages install if any one of them
can't be installed, then I suppose it's worth a try.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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