Re: what packages do you reccomend to compile source
For a specific package (eg. netpbm) which might need development
libraries.
apt-get build-dep packagename
In case build errors arise, try the above way.
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 23:32 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> The 'build-essential' meta-package is a great start. Next you will want
> many -dev packages. If you needed the Python galago development files
> than you'd install:
> python-galago-dev - Galago presence library (Python interface)
> apt-get install python-galago-dev
> and similar for what ever you './configure' script spits out.
> So 'apt-cache search xyz |grep dev' would be a way to look for dev
> packages which have xyz in them.
>
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