jfcmartins
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Error installing libmysqlclient-dev to C programming

Thu Dec 21, 2017 6:17 pm

Hello!

I'm trying to install libmysqlclient-dev but it keeps giving me this error:

"Package libmysqlclient-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source."

I did this commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Any sugestions?

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rpdom
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Re: Error installing libmysqlclient-dev to C programming

Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:20 pm

MySQL has been replaced by MariaDB in Stretch.

You can build against libmariadbclient-dev instead.

jfcmartins
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Re: Error installing libmysqlclient-dev to C programming

Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:02 am

rpdom wrote:
Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:20 pm
MySQL has been replaced by MariaDB in Stretch.

You can build against libmariadbclient-dev instead.
Thanks! It worked

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