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Re: debian distro vs. applications



on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 06:56:23PM -0500, sam rosenfeld (sam@wdn.com) wrote:
> I switched to Debian2.2r2 about eight months ago (at that time 2.2r2 was
> the latest distribution).  Recently, I've been unable to build almost
> all the applications I have tried.  The usual problem seems to be missing
> file dependencies.  In fact, in almost all instances, the application
> called for dependency files that had become available after the
> distribution (lsl) had been written to the CDs.  For example, yesterday I
> tried to build xpfd (reportedly a better alternative to acrobat).  After
> completing ./configure, "make" halted with an error message to the effect
> of:  libc6.2.2 or later is required and not found in memory.  In fact,
> the latest version I have is libc6.1.

You need the -dev versions of libraries for build support.

Peace.

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