I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and I have an old .deb
file that I'm trying to install. The Ubuntu Software app failed to install it, so I did sudo dpkg -i headoverheels_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb
This resulted in:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of headoverheels:
headoverheels depends on liballegro4.2 (>= 2:4.2.2); however:
Package liballegro4.2 is not installed.
headoverheels depends on libxerces-c28; however:
Package libxerces-c28 is not installed.
But liballegro4.2
does appear to be available, so I tried sudo apt-get install liballegro4.2-dev
. However -
Note, selecting 'liballegro4-dev' instead of 'liballegro4.2-dev'
The following additional packages will be installed:
liballegro4.4 libjpgalleg4.4
The following NEW packages will be installed
liballegro4-dev liballegro4.4 libjpgalleg4.4
Older versions of liballegro are available from https://pkgs.org/download/liballegro4.2-dev but the oldest (for Ubuntu 14.04) is also version 4.4.
What is the best approach here?
The original deb file was marked as 'for Ubuntu 10.04' so can I obtain the deb files for liballegro4.2
and libxerces-c28
from the Lucid repository somehow? (I'd prefer to have the deb files to keep, so I can install this program again in the future on a different machine)
This question deals with installing older packages that are listed on packages.ubuntu.com, but that only goes as far back as 14.04.