Missing header files

[Tim Frost]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:39 +0200, Alain Muls wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I try to compile a program, but the compiler says that header files are 
> missing, such as 
> 
> X11/Xlib.h
> 
> How can I find out which package to install, so how can I find out to which 
> package a certain file belongs.
packages.ubuntu.com has a search facility that permits this.  apt-file
also provides a search facility.

Note that the sources, header files, etc, are in a development package,
which is not installed by default.  In most cases, you can install the
packages needed for the build of <package>  with
sudo apt-get build-dep <package>

You also need the core files, including the C compiler, installed with
sudo apt-get install build-essential



HTH 

Tim