any shortcut to install all dev-related packages?

[C de-Avillez]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 09:18 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i just found the task definition file  
> /usr/share/tasksel/ubuntu-tasks.desc, but i'm disappointed that  
> there's no "task" to turn my stock 10.04 laptop into a development  
> workstation -- that is, installing the various compilers,  
> interpreters, linkers, autotools packages, version control tools and  
> so on.
> 
>    is there a meta-install incantation for that?  or do i have to pick  
> and choose?  thanks.
> 

Heh. Development (and developers), very much like cars, came in many
different flavours. I wonder if it even makes sense to talk about a
"development" tasksel entry. Python development requires completely
different libraries than -- say -- C, or Java.

But anyway. An easy way for you to set up your machine for *required*
packages for a specific source is to 'apt-get build-dep' on it. For
example, if I want to set up my machine for building Evolution, I would

sudo apt-get build-dep evolution evolution-data-server gtkhtml libgdata
libgweather

All *required* packages to build the Evolution (and EDS) packages would
then be installed (from the compiler to development versions of
libraries).

Of course, this is not all. You might want to use an IDE -- and there
are *many* options out there, etc, etc.



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C de-Avillez
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