On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:02:40AM -0600, Charles Sebold wrote: > On 27 Shevat 5761, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Problem is that I ran into a build problem that i can't figure > > out. I searched the archives and found no similar compile problem. > > Compile fails, and I think it has something to do with missing > > headers. Here's the beginning of the stderr output. -- > > As Ethan pointed out, binutils-dev is your friend. (I think I also > needed libncurses5-dev or something like that; give it a shot first, > though.) > > Hey, is there any way to get a history of what you've installed using > dpkg, and when you installed it? (Then I could have remembered > precisely what I had to install when doing this, a few weeks back.) > I'm new to Debian (but I'm never going back, believe me).
i don't think you can get that precise of an audit trail, but you can save your entire package selection list like so: dpkg --get-selections \* > selections if you update and backup this file when you add/remove packages you can easily restore a newly installed debian system to the exact state it was (sans configuration files you changed) by running: dpkg --set-selections < selections apt-get dselect-upgrade the \* ensures you get all the listings, even removed packages. that way any packages you removed from the source system are removed from the target system as well. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
pgp3XXfT17FmC.pgp
Description: PGP signature
