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I'm trying to install a custom Mightex software and at some point I get the following error message:

configure: error: Cannot find required SDL library.

So after googling I found this page

I typed:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0

but the error persisted after the installation and now I'm at a loss.. Any ideas?

EDIT:

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04

After recommendations I also installed libsdl2-dev but that didn't change anything. My output from running ld -lSDL --verbose is here. Unfortunately I can give limited information about the software I'm trying to install as it's proprietary.

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    I think you need the developer library instead libsdl2-dev. Try installing that.
    – Lucio
    Dec 18, 2014 at 22:42
  • possible duplicate of How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?
    – dobey
    Dec 18, 2014 at 22:50
  • that's not what I'm asking... that questions is with regards to using .tar.gz which I don't want to do
    – evan54
    Dec 18, 2014 at 23:01
  • @Lucio I tried that but it still didn't work..
    – evan54
    Dec 18, 2014 at 23:09
  • What software are you trying to install? Does it happen with any package? What OS do you have? A screenshoot may help.
    – Lucio
    Dec 18, 2014 at 23:10

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So the package that needed to be installed is libsdl1.2-dev.

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
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