Re: question

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

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