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Please help me.

I am trying to install allegro to my debian jessie 8.5 system.

Okay so first I added the PPA of allegro

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:allegro/5.2

Then I did sudo apt-get update which says:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/allegro/5.2/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/apps/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/sublime-text-3/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

Naturally sudo apt-get install liballegro5-dev doesn't locate the package.

So I thought I'd just fix it some other day and decided to build from source. Thus I downloaded the source for allegro (allegro-5.2.1.1).

After extracting it, making a build folder, running cmake .. from build folder I got the error message:

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:621 (message):

X11 support requires Xcursor library.

Then I did a sudo apt-get install libxcursor-dev but apt-get cant locate that package. apt-cache search xcursor says there is a libxcursor1 package but it seems to be already installed in my system.

I've tried 'rm -rf'ing the build folder and trying to cmake again, but it doesn't work.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libxcursor-dev says there is a libxcursor-dev but my apt-get can't get it. Also, the PPAs arent being updated. Is it because of my sources.list? It has the following lines:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib

Now I'm all out of ideas guys, please offer whatever suggestions/links/solutions you have.

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  • did you install all these dependencies? apt-get install build-essential git cmake cmake-curses-gui xorg-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu-dev
    – Dylan_R
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 11:55
  • Everything is installed to the newest version except apt-get cmake-curses-gui and xorg-dev, both of which apt-get says it cant locate. @Dylan
    – Nirav
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 12:12
  • is deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main in the sources list aka /etc/apt/sources.list?
    – Dylan_R
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 12:19
  • Ahhh @DylanRz you are a genius.
    – Nirav
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 17:17

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Okay I found what was wrong. The sources.list were misconfigured. When I added

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

to the sources.list file (inspired by @DylanRz), all problems resolved themselves.

I must have messed something up long ago when I was selecting mirrors.

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