Where is the C Compiler?

alastair lewis ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu Apr 14 13:55:55 UTC 2005


Colin Watson Wrote: 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:44:41PM -0400, alastair lewis
> wrote:[color=blue]
> 
> Software often (in fact, almost always) has build-dependencies above
> and
> beyond the bare minimum. In this case, you probably need at least
> libx11-dev and libxt-dev. However, in general you have to read the
> package's installation documentation to find out what you need.
> 
> Source packages come with a debian/control file that specifies, among
> other things, what you need to install in order to build that package.
> You can use 'apt-get build-dep lineakd' (or whatever) to install the
> build-dependencies for any package in the archive.
> 

Worked a treat, Thanks


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alastair lewis




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