Ubuntu won't start

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:18 +0300, Anas wrote:
> I was trying to compile anjuta from source and the program asked for
> glib

It was probably just telling you that it needs the libglib2.0-dev
package to compile. 

In Ubuntu (and Debian) the development files (headers and such) are
packaged separately, so that people who don't use don't have to waste
space on them. Therefore, if you compile from source the ./config script
will often tell you "library xy not found", or something like that. More
often than not this just means that if didn't find the headers, which
can be solved by installing the corresponding -dev package.

And a tip regarding "make install": if you replace that with
"checkinstall make install", it will build a nice *.deb package instead
of simply dumping the files in the file system. This allows you to keep
an overview of what is installed, and also to uninstall cleanly.