Hi Jeronimo! On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I > needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing > ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :) > > Anyway... I found that apt doesn't seem to know about dependencies > related to -dev packages... The build of console-apt failed once, and > that of gnome-apt failed twice, I think, because of these > dependencies. And all I had were missing header files, so I had to > guess in which -dev packages they would be. Whie not automated (AFAIK), the build-depends can usually be found in the debian/control file. gnome-apt-0.3.9/debian/control: Maintainer: Apt Packaging Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: libapt-pkg-dev (>= 0.3.18), autoconf, m4, gettext[....] [..] HTH yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ [please CC me on lists]