let's say you need to build from source a program such as "gimp" which has many library dependencies. You don't know what they are, and you want debian to auto-install the -dev packages you need. apt-get build-dep is your friend.
/etc/apt [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get build-dep gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: automake1.7 intltool libaa1-dev libcroco3-dev libexif-dev libgail-common libgail-dev libgail17 libgnomecanvas2-dev libgsf-1-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev librsvg2-dev libslang2-dev libwmf-dev libxml-parser-perl libxpm-dev patchutils python-gtk2-dev 0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 114 not upgraded. Need to get 4506kB of archives. After unpacking 18.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? On 4/12/07, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 14:25 +0100, Luis Matos a écrit : > gnome-devel has what? anjuta, devhelp, glade and ... ... and gnome-core-devel. > i see for example > that it has no -dev dependency ... so ... how are people going to > compile stuff against gnome/gtk/linux libraries? They are only > recomends. No.
