libxp6 package is not available on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial and 18.04 bionic

Bug #1594846 reported by Martyn Brake
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libxp (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

A number of packages (in this case IDL - http://www.exelisvis.co.uk/ProductsServices/IDL.aspx) need to have libxp6 and libxp-dev to run. I believe that there are a load of other programs that will depend upon it. Add it to apt and all will be happy.

Thanks,
Martyn

Tags: bionic xenial
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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote : Re: libxp6 package is not available on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial

This package exists in Debian 7, 8 and Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 (see https://pkgs.org/download/libxp6).
Please import this package from Debian or previous Ubuntu.

tags: added: xenial
summary: - libxp not part of 16.04 xenial
+ libxp6 package is not available on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: added: bionic
summary: - libxp6 package is not available on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
+ libxp6 package is not available on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial and 18.04 bionic
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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :

18.04 LTS with all updates, bug exists.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in libxp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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