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Re: How to find debug packages



On 27 Ago, 21:00, Djingo Cacadril <cacad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I need to install debug packages for a couple of debian packages, like epiphany, gtk, glib, libgnome,libgnomeui. However, 30 minutes of googling only turned up statements that some packages have debug versions called foo-dbg, and trying
>
>   # aptitude install epiphany-dbg
>
> returned
>
>   Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "epiphany-dbg"
>
> How do I proceed? Do I have to build the packages from source??  Thanks
>

(I assume you're talking about epiphany-browser)
Lenny provides epiphany-browser-dbg
Furthemore Debian provides *-dbg debs for (quite?) every library,
e.g.:

% apt-cache search -n libgtk2 dbg
libgtk2.0-0-dbg - The GTK+ libraries and debugging symbols

Regards,

s.


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