Re: make problems
thanks Cris, installing libdb2-dev did the job...I wish that
apt-cache can do regex searches in the future..that can make
life a lot simpler for people like me.
From: Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: make problems
> Try installing libdb2-dev (though I don't know if that's in potato).
> Usually when you are having trouble compiling something because of a
> missing library, you can be sure that the package that you need to
> install begins with "lib" and ends with "-dev". I don't know how a
> new user would know about the "db2" part. You know that you need
> "db", so you do a search for libdb in apt-cache, I guess. It's a
> shame that apt-cache doesn't do regex searches.
>
> Incidentally, libdb1 depends on libc5, so you probably don't want it.
> If libdb2-dev isn't in potato, you might just need libc6-dev.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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