how to map a missing file to its containing package?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sat May 8 13:16:19 UTC 2010
once again, from a newbie perspective, i'm just trying to map my
fedora knowledge to ubuntu. long story short,
* downloaded busybox
* did "make menuconfig" for native configuration
* was immediately told "missing curses.h"
so, trivially, i need to install the appropriate curses-related
development package that contains that header file.
since i have a good handle on how packaging works, it was a simple
matter to run:
$ apt-cache search curses | grep dev
and take a (correct) guess that i wanted libncurses5-dev. but if i'm
not in a position to guess, what is the incantation to map a file to
its (uninstalled) package? thanks.
rday
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