how to compile source after I apt-get source it ?

["Maxim Vexler" <hq4ever@gmail.com>]

Hi all

I've downloaded the source of tilda package with
<<<
mkdir tilda
cd tilda
apt-get source tilda
> > >

I've gone ahead and edited a few files there, now I need to compile the binary.
How can I do this "the debian way" ?

Doing a simple ./configure gets me this :
<<<
dynamic:~/deb/tilda/tilda-0.09.2$ pwd
/home/hq4ever/deb/tilda/tilda-0.09.2
dynamic:~/deb/tilda/tilda-0.09.2$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
[snip]
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PACKAGE... configure: error: Package requirements
(gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0, gthread-2.0, vte) were not met:

No package 'vte' found
[snip]
> > >

This is normal because I probably don't have lib-foo-dev.


So the questions are :

a. How do I know what packages does tilda depends on to compile on my system ?
b. Is there a debian utility that would go and get those packages for me ?


Thank you,
Maxim.

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Maxim Vexler

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