On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:01:08AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I am trying to compile with gcc on amd64 lenny a program that requests > gdbm.h Debian lists several libgdbm.o files, though libgdbm.h is > present nowhere. > > Which is the equivalent? libgdbm-dev ought to provide it. Header files are only used when compiling, so they are in -dev packages. The libraries are used while running the program so they are in the library packages. -- Len Sorensen