[Aptitude-devel] Bug#670222: E: Failed to write temporary StateFile /var/lib/apt/extended_states.tmp

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 24 April 2012 21:40, Vladimir Stavrinov <vstavrinov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:10:11PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>
>
>> The file config.log will contain details of why the test failed.
>
> The only relevant message I can see is "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find
> -lgtest", but both packages
>
> libgtest-dev
> libgtest0
>
> are installed too.
>
> See this log in attachment.

Looks like gtest is no longer shipping the library.  Our build system
will need updating.

In the mean time Ubuntu has a patch, no-google-mock [1], which may get
you on your way.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/aptitude/precise/files/head:/debian/patches/