libxp6 not available in xenial

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

I'm seeing this in xenial as well. It looks like this existed in main up through vivid, but not wily or xenial. There is a debian package in unstable, but I don't know if this could be a straight sync or if Ubuntu-specific patches need to be merged.

Looks like I spoke too soon. There is a package in unstable for arm64 via debports, but no package for any of the standard architectures in the official repos. Since xprint is deprecated, it looks like this was a conscious choice to remove this from debian: https://bugs.debian.org/657253

So, looks like those of us supporting proprietary software with these dependencies are out of luck. Grabbing the old libxp.so.6 and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH... :-)

Status should probably be changed to "Won't Fix," but I can't do this myself.

Hello!
The lib need me in Ubuntu 16.04 too quickly.

Right, libxp is essential lib.
Please bring it back.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04

Please could someone post instructions on how to do this: "grabbing the old libxp.so.6 and setting ld_library_path"? I am stuck because I can't run Matlab.

Yep - this is s showstopper for me - please fix

Well not a fix, but a workaround for those of you struggling, simply add the trusty repository, install libxp6, then remove it...

create:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/libxp-source.list

as:

# Used to install libxp6 for chemkin and ansys to work
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main universe

apt-get update
apt-get install libxp6

Then comment out the repository line and

apt-get clean all

No updates, etc, but you get the library you need for now.

If you don't want to change your repositories (even temporarily), I have created a PPA just for that package here:

https://launchpad.net/~zeehio/+archive/ubuntu/libxp

I have published the package for xenial:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zeehio/libxp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxp6

It contains the latest version from Debian before it was removed.

Thanks Zeehio, its worked very well for me,
Solving the missing libxp6.so

Thanks Zeehio, it works. Great!

@Zeehio, you my hero. Worked like a charm.

Does anyone know if there are a libxp for armhf? I only found for x86.