How to install libevent via aptitude?

Question

It doesn't seem to work.

aptitude install libevent1
locate libevent

/usr/share/doc/libevent1
/usr/share/doc/libevent1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libevent1/copyright
/var/cache/apt/archives/libevent1_1.3e-3_amd64.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libevent1.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libevent1.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libevent1.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libevent1.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libevent1.shlibs
falcon@cache1:~/src/beanstalkd-1.4.3$ libevent1

Solution 1

Why don't you just build it on your own?

http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz

Download it, then run the usual

./configure
make
sudo make install
ldconfig

Solution 2

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

Will do it.

Comments

[Admin]

What's your question? If locate finds files of the package, then it is installed. Did you mean libevent-dev?

[quack quixote]

much better to use the system-provided package manager when possible. installing it this way won't tell the package manager about it, so it won't handle dependent packages "correctly".