svn and cmake.

[Ignazio Palmisano]

John Culleton wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008 03:48:40 pm Paul Lemmons wrote:
> 
>> sudo apt-get install subversion
>>
>> I *think* this is what you are asking for...
>>
>> The same would apply for scribus as well, uless you are in
>> desperate need of the development version of the software.
>>
>> sudo apt-get install scribus
> 
> First, I was disappointed in Kubuntu in several respects, not the 
> least of which the silly restriction against  signing on as root. So 
> I tried a few Debian installs, ending up with Debian testing.  This 
> offered the current stable version of Scribus (1.3.3.12). But I was 
> looking for the bleeding edge version. I did
> apt-get install subversion
> and that worked fine. Thanks for the hint. I did
> apt-get install gcc
> I think there is a more general command to download the compiler, the 
> linker etc. but I don't know what it is.

Try:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

(or your preferred package manager)

HTH,
I.

> After making two directories and successfulley running svn in one I 
> did
> apt-get install cmake
> and that succeeded but apparently there is some setup required for 
> cmake.  It errored off because the compiler is not specified.  I'll 
> try copying over the Slack version of cmake and see if that works.   
> 
> This list is probably not the right one to discuss the innards of 
> Debian testing so I'll look for a more appropriate one. Thanks for 
> your help with subversion. Guessing what Debian/Kubuntu calls things 
> is a bit of an art form.
>