Re: compiling sources and apt

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:58:39AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote:
> A few weeks ago, someone mentioned a way to compile
> programs from source using an apt tool that would go
> and get any missing components needed to compile said
> sources. What was this utility? I can't for the life
> of me recall what it was.

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
  $ sudo apt-get build-dep foo
  $ apt-get -b source foo

(I forget whether 'apt-get build-dep' installs build-essential packages
too, but I don't think it does.)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]