E: Unable to locate package checkinstall

Software PureOS
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How do I fix both these errors?

E: Unable to locate package checkinstall
E: Unable to locate package libfdk-aac-dev

thanks

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When asking for help, please provide as much as context as you can. In this xase it would be useful to see what command exactly you run to reach this error.

You might want to try running sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade if you haven’t already.

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Apologies @mladen

Here’s what I am trying to install:

sudo apt-get install \
          build-essential \
          checkinstall \
          cmake \
          git \
          libmbedtls-dev \
          libasound2-dev \
          libavcodec-dev \
          libavdevice-dev \
          libavfilter-dev \
          libavformat-dev \
          libavutil-dev \
          libcurl4-openssl-dev \
          libfdk-aac-dev \
          libfontconfig-dev \
          libfreetype6-dev \
          libgl1-mesa-dev \
          libjack-jackd2-dev \
          libjansson-dev \
          libluajit-5.1-dev \
          libpulse-dev \
          libqt5x11extras5-dev \
          libspeexdsp-dev \
          libswresample-dev \
          libswscale-dev \
          libudev-dev \
          libv4l-dev \
          libvlc-dev \
          libx11-dev \
          libx264-dev \
          libxcb-shm0-dev \
          libxcb-xinerama0-dev \
          libxcomposite-dev \
          libxinerama-dev \
          pkg-config \
          python3-dev \
          qtbase5-dev \
          libqt5svg5-dev \
          swig \
          libxcb-randr0-dev \
          libxcb-xfixes0-dev \
          libx11-xcb-dev \
          libxcb1-dev

Here is the output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libfontconfig1-dev' instead of 'libfontconfig-dev'
E: Unable to locate package checkinstall
E: Unable to locate package libfdk-aac-dev

after sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

here’s the output again:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libfontconfig1-dev' instead of 'libfontconfig-dev'
E: Unable to locate package checkinstall
E: Unable to locate package libfdk-aac-dev

any advice on how to install the two missing packages will be appreciated.
Thanks

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checkinstall package has not yet landed in stable suite: https://software.pureos.net/search_pkg?term=checkinstall

libfdk-aac-dev is not available in PureOS, as it is non-free package. You can download and install manually from: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libfdk-aac-dev

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Hi @mladen
Thank you for the info.
I think i installed the packages you shared.

can you please look at this output and tell me if it’s indicating a correct install:

sherab@sherab-librem:~/Debian_Packages$ sudo gdebi checkinstall_1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

installation tracker
 CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or
 modified by your installation script ("make install"
 "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a
 standard binary package and installs it in your
 system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your
 distribution's standard package management utilities.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
/usr/bin/gdebi:113: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
  c = findall("[[(](\S+)/\S+[])]", msg)[0].lower()
Selecting previously unselected package checkinstall.
(Reading database ... 267265 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack checkinstall_1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking checkinstall (1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2) ...
Setting up checkinstall (1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
sherab@sherab-librem:~/Debian_Packages$
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If you are worried about

you can ignore it - although the author of the code should examine it for future breakage with the addition of new regular expression features.

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checkinstall seems to be installed.

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