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Installing GNU development tools/libraries/headers
Posted by muondude on Tue 10 Apr 2007 at 18:51
Debian Stable (etch):
I thought there was a meta-package (virtual package) for installing all the C/C++ development libraries and header files, but can't seem to find it.
What is the currently recommended way to get all those files (libraries and headers) installed.
I recently had a problem under etch where we couldn't build an app and none of the headers/libs were installed and it seemed like a random process to figure out what we needed.
I thought there was a meta-package (virtual package) for installing all the C/C++ development libraries and header files, but can't seem to find it.
What is the currently recommended way to get all those files (libraries and headers) installed.
I recently had a problem under etch where we couldn't build an app and none of the headers/libs were installed and it seemed like a random process to figure out what we needed.
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Posted by Anonymous (85.82.xx.xx) on Tue 10 Apr 2007 at 19:29
The package build-essential is probably a good start.
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Posted by muondude (130.221.xx.xx) on Tue 10 Apr 2007 at 20:14
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Great! thanks.
-- Sam
-- Sam
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The other useful tip here, is that "apt"/"aptitude", can get the build dependencies for any package. So pick one with a similar set of dependencies, or an old version of the same package, and you can save a lot of fiddling around with finding relevant developer packages.
apt-get build-dep packageinquestion
apt-get build-dep packageinquestion
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