Re: parted - compilation problems

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:19:49AM +1100, bob parker wrote:
> checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
> configure: error: GNU Parted requires libuuid - a part of the e2fsprogs 
> package (but sometimes distributed separately in uuid-devel or similar)

  $ grep-available -P uuid
  Package: uuid-dev
  Priority: extra
  Section: devel
  Installed-Size: 104
  Maintainer: Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
  Architecture: i386
  Source: e2fsprogs (1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-2)
  Version: 1.2-1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-2
  Replaces: e2fslibs-dev (<< 1.15)
  Depends: libc6-dev, e2fsprogs (= 1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-2)
  Conflicts: e2fsprogs (<< 1.10-6)
  Filename: pool/main/e/e2fsprogs/uuid-dev_1.2-1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-2_i386.deb
  Size: 13298
  MD5sum: 6bc6ada6c66ebff5dd79c788931597e7
  Description: Universally unique id library - headers and static libraries.
   libuuid generates and parses 128-bit universally unique id's (UUID's),
   using a standard which is blessed by both Microsoft and DCE, and is
   being proposed as an internet standard.  See the internet-draft:
   .
                  draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt
   .
   for more information.

(Or you could use the search engine at <http://packages.debian.org/>.)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]