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[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:28:11 +0000
R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:56:48 +1100
> Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I strongly suggest you install the "build-essential" package. It
> > contains the basic compilers , "make" and other bits needed for
> > compiling. I've compiled a number of things on Breezy with no
> > problems. 
> 
> Actually, if this is the case then the info in synaptic is a bit
> misleading.  It says:-
> 
> If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this
> package.
> 
> I didn't install it since I don't build Debian packages, but I do
> compile quite a lot of stuff.
> 
> - Richard.
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/


-- peter at prospero:~ $ apt-cache depends build-essential
build-essential
 |Depends: libc6-dev
  Depends: <libc-dev>
    libc6-dev
  Depends: gcc
  Depends: g++
  Depends: make
  Depends: dpkg-dev

Strictly speaking you don't need the dpkg-dev I guess - but build-esssential is an easy way to get the bits. Also you will run into trouble if , for instance, you follow any methods that do things "the Debian Way" - like compiling modules using debian/rules and so on. 

I still think this is the package to install , and I remember it was always the one recommended on #debian on freenode in the days when I used to hang out there...

Peter
Linux User #343161