Unable to install libmotif4

Question

While installing dependencies for Oracle 11g setup on Ubuntu, I got the following error:

Package libmotif4 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

However the following packages replace it:
libxm4:i386 libuil4:i386 libmrm4:i386 libxm4 libuil4 libmrm4 libmotif-common

E: Package 'libmotif4' has no installation candidate

How to resolve this error?

Solution 1

libmotif4 is not present in latest Ubuntu 16.04, due to which this error is occurring. For workaround I downloaded libmotif4 which was compatible with previous ubuntu 15.10 from http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/libmotif4

After download, we just need to install the packages which are suggested in the error using apt-get install command

libxm4:i386 libuil4:i386 libmrm4:i386 libxm4 libuil4 libmrm4 libmotif-common

Solution 2

I just had to fix this on Ubuntu 16.04 myself. I did the following:

Navigate to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/libmotif4/2.3.4-8ubuntu1 and download the .deb file.

Run the following from the directory where the file was downloaded to:

sudo dpkg -i libmotif4_2.3.4-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb

During this process it will complain abot not having libmrm4, libuil4, and libxm4 in that order.

Now simply run the following command to fix the unmet dependencies:

sudo apt-get -f install

You should be up and running. As of June 1, 2017, the link above was good. Hopefully it can last awhile longer.

Comments

[Tshilidzi Mudau]

Please note that this link are no longer valid. Are there any replacements? - credit to @fradsham for noticing this.

[Tshilidzi Mudau]

Please note that this link are no longer valid. Are there any replacements? - credit to @fradsham for noticing this.

[David Foerster]

Mixing base repositories of different Ubuntu releases is asking for trouble. -1