> Stephen's points are valid and quite useful > considering an upstream developer's point of view, > but for random user joe who is trying to find a development > package, one of the following may help him find the right package Joe user should do: apt-cache search libNAME dev (or use synaptic, aptitude, etc.) That's what do I do when I search for library. Ondrej. -- Ondrej Sury <ondrej@sury.org>