Re: apt-get feature wants (was: Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat)

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
>Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies
>you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other
>sources upfront instead of spending time compiling and only finding out
>later that something you needed wasn't there. Ofcourse, this gets slightly
>more complicated with the previous want of mine. :)
>
>Again, one step closer if that were available. :)

'apt-get build-dep packagename' with the apt in unstable will get the
required build dependencies. There should be a script in dpkg 1.9.0
which checks them, too.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]