yeah i guess its possible that apt-get would retirive all the compilation tools automatically. cuz that would make installing from source a snap. i think gentoo has something like that though i am not sure if it retrives te tools too. <div>On 7/14/05, Serg Belokamen <<a href="mailto:serg.belokamen@gmail.com"> serg.belokamen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I think the question was (and if its not then here it is): How would one approach building application from source (so ./configure, make...) but using apt as an assistant so to speak. So, for example we woulod say something like (psudo only) apt path/to/source/code and it would take care of compilation and all dependencies. I recall reading about something similar a while back but never looked into it in detail :( Serg On 14/07/05, ubuntp <<a href="mailto:ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org">ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org </a>> wrote: > > The source URLs are the same, just use the regular URLs in sources.list > and put deb-src (instead of just deb) in front of them. To build the > .deb you have to go to directory of the just downloaded source and type > -debian/rules binary-, this will create the .deb in the parent dir. > > > -- > ubuntp > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>