development tools package?

[golfer]

On 6/20/06, Christopher J. Bottaro <cjbottaro at alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to compile php from source and configure is tripping over all
> sorts of missing stuff.  Instead of installing each thing one by one, is
> there some sort of pseudo package in (K)Ubuntu that installs most packages
> needed for development (like gcc, g++, autoconf, automake, binutils, flex,
> yacc, bison, etc)?

build-essential, linux-headers-{3,6}86, and then the devel packages
your working on (i.e. for KDE, try kde-devel and kde-devel-extras).
If your build fails and tells you what's missing, try search
'apt-cache search <keyword>' to find other packages needed.

regards,