The normal debian installation automatically searches the correct directory so I'm not sure why you're having problems. To get around the problem, simply direct g++ to search in that directory:
g++ -I /usr/include/g++ -- Jean Pierre On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jeff Shilt wrote: > I recently installed the basic development files - gcc, cpp, binutils, libs, > and libs-dev. When I tried to compile a program with just a cout line it > says iostream.h: no such file... > I remeber seeing a lot of this on the linux newsgroup, and there seemed to > be as many theories as there were answers. > In usr/lib there is a link to /usr/include/g++ which does have iostream.h > in it. But how do I make gcc look there?