Re: question
Hi,
Dionysis Kalofonos wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> i have a program that i want to compile, but i miss the file
> 'curl-config' and so the process stops with an error.
>
> My questions is. How can i find the package the provides the above file
> (it can be more than one)?
You can either use the apt-file command or packages.debian.org.
>
> i am currently searching on google for such cases, but i was wandering
> whether there is a better way.
>
> Mainly i want to provide a suggestion when such failures occur. For
> instance in this case i could say that possible candidate packages for
> this file are x,y,z...
That's what Build-Depends are for: there you specify the name of the
packages required to build the package; and of course you can use ORed
dependencies, e.g. Build-Depends: foo | bar
>
> many thanks
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert
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