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I'm trying to install Gulp.

As the author says it needs 32-bit libpcap-dev libs for building the application, but when I try to download 32bit version it says

NO INSTALL CANDIDATE AVAILABLE

How do I solve this?

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit

A.B.
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Jishnu U Nair
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libcap-dev (both 32 and 64 bits) are available in Ubuntu 14.04's main repo.

$ apt-cache policy libcap-dev:i386
libcap-dev:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.24-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     1:2.24-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

I think you have not enabled the multiarch support leading to that error about non-existent package.

To enable multiarch support for i386 architecture so that you can install 32 bit packages on your 64 bit system :

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Now run :

sudo apt-get update

Now you should be able to install libcap-dev (32 bit) :

sudo apt-get install libcap-dev:i386
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