Compilation failure "configure: error: udev support requested but libudev header not installed"

I did following on my ubuntu machine:

1. Git clone
2. after extraction, ran ./autogen.sh script, this failed with following error:

checking libudev.h usability... no checking libudev.h presence... no checking for libudev.h... no configure: error: udev support requested but libudev header not installed

I also tried installing libudev using following command sudo apt-get install libudev-dev but it fails with following error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed: libudev1 udev
The following NEW packages will be installed: libudev-dev
The following packages will be upgraded: libudev1 udev
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 83 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,197 kB of archives.
After this operation, 539 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err:1 xenial-updates/main amd64 udev amd64 229-4ubuntu17 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
Err:2 xenial-updates/main amd64 libudev1 amd64 229-4ubuntu17 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
Err:3 xenial-updates/main amd64 libudev-dev amd64 229-4ubuntu17 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
Unable to correct missing packages.
E: Failed to fetch 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
E: Failed to fetch 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
E: Failed to fetch 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.162 80]
E: Aborting install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

2 Answers

sudo apt install libudev-dev works on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I got this to working. First i installed libudev-dev the hardway.

1.wget and wget

2. Installed these packages using sudo dpkg -i <*.deb>

3. Now, ran ./autogen.sh under libusb folder.

Configuration completed successfully!