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I was trying to install jingoo from opam, but met with some error, and the message wasn’t clear about what was causing it.

$ opam install jingoo
Your request can't be satisfied:
  - No package matches jingoo.

  No solution found, exiting

So opam reports that there is no such package, but if we try searching for it

$ opam search jingoo
# Existing packages for 4.03.0:
jingoo  --  Template engine almost compatible with Jinja2(python template engine)

it’s there!

Time to dig deeper, a helpful command line parameter is --debug

$ opam install --debug jingoo
...
00:01.741  HEURISTIC               state-of-request: install:(base-bigarray & base-bigarray (= 1) & base-threads & base-threads (= 1) & base-unix & base-unix (= 1)) remove:() upgrade:(jingoo) criteria:"-removed,-notuptodate,-changed" CONFLICT!
00:01.741  CUDF                    resolve request=install:(base-bigarray & base-bigarray (= 1) & base-threads & base-threads (= 1) & base-unix & base-unix (= 1)) remove:() upgrade:(jingoo) criteria:"-removed,-notuptodate,-changed"
00:01.741  CLIENT                  conflict!
Your request can't be satisfied:
  - No package matches jingoo.

  No solution found, exiting
...

My first try searching for this error turned up an issue that mentioned aspcud, which is a constraint solver that opam uses to decide the versions of dependencies to install.

So I tried to install it (I’m on Ubuntu 16.04)

$ sudo apt install aspcud

and then tried installing jingoo again

$ opam install jingoo
The following dependencies couldn't be met:
  - jingoo -> batteries
  Your request can't be satisfied:
    - batteries is not available because your system doesn't comply with ocaml-version >= "3.12.1" & ocaml-version < "4.03.0".

    No solution found, exiting

This gives a different error message.

So if you faced this particular problem of not being able to install a package via opam install, reporting package as not found, even though opam search lists the package, you should try this.

This issue is already report on opam here.