Re: Source dependencies

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

> Hello !
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:20:57AM -0500, Richard Fillion wrote:
>  
>
> > Someone suggested that i do 'apt-get source x-window-system' and build
> > the sources it gave me with 'dpkg-makepackage' but then i run into a
> > source version of dependency hell.  XF wants groff, groff wants so and
> > so......  Is there any easier way?  I _really_ want to be able to build
> > XFree86 here.
> >    
>
> Well, you'll need some packages to build XFree, simply cd into the
> directory where XFree is unpacked and run
>
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps
>
> This display all unsatisfied build dependencies which you then install
> via apt-get.
Then there's:

apt-get build-dep x-window-system

which automagically apt-get installs the Build-Deps and their deps etc, 
and builds the package.  Must be run as root of course.

Zeen,
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