Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote:
> > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried
> > doing "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I
> > only have deb-src pointing to testing. (The rest is pointing to
> > stable and Adrian Bunk's stuff).
>
> Use the command
>
> apt-get build-dep hotplug
>
> to fulfill hotplugs's build dependencies. Sometimes this will give
> you an error that it can't find one (or more) of the packages
> needed to fill the build dependancies; if this is the case build
> them from source first (using `apt-get build-dep` and `fakeroot
> apt-get -b source`).
Cool. When did this feature get into apt-get? Debian's the closest
thing to compiling heaven. I better start reading the man page again.
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