Posted by Civil Guy on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Build-on-Mint-18-tp5716522p5716551.html

Well... I might have figured out better what the problem is.  Taking one example from the my initial run of apt-get install:

apt-get won't install libfreetype6-dev because it depends on zlib1g-dev, which it can't install.

The issue seems to be that zlib1g-dev itself depends on zlib1g version 1.2.8.dfsg-2unbuntu4.  The version of zlib1g that's on my computer is instead 1.2.8.dfsg-2unbuntu4.1.  Hey, that's what came with the Mint installation.

As far as I can tell, I'd need to track down and fix each version inconsistency.

Maybe I could straighten all of this out, but I'm not sure I want to take the trouble.  I've got another computer with Ubuntu on it, and that seems to work better, so I'll probably just switch to that.  But at least I've got some better idea of what I'd be up against here.