On Tuesday 21 March 2006 01:59, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Mar-06, 14:37 (CST), David Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a setting somewhere I can set to cause apt-get and aptitude to > > always install corresponding -dev packages? The default behavior of not > > installing them is particularly annoying when dealing with libraries that > > are installed when the OS itself is installed. > > Nope, there's no such option. > > If you're (re-)building Debian packages, there's an option to "apt-get > source" that also grabs the build dependencies. > > For some of the bigger suites (Gnome, KDE, etc.) look for a high-level > blah-devel package that brings in pretty much everything you need > to do development for that suite. Or at least there used to be such > packages... > > Otherwise, your best bet may be to fire up aptitude and step through the > libdevel section, picking out the ones you want. Note that you don't > have to pick all of them, just the ones you explicitly want, and let the > dependency system pull in anything they need.
In fact in cases like that you will find auto-apt quite useful. It wraps the build process in its own environment, peeps around for the files access and propose to install them on demand via apt-get. E.g. try: auto-apt run ./configure --whatever -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
