One more thing… | June 5th, 2006
I know I’ve used in a couple of recent posts - but especially since I’m on Ubuntu (and they tend not to be with the installing dev packages) - the command
apt-get build-dep [package-name]
Is seriously awesome! I’m not sure how I got through my early Debian life without using it (probably because I always said - install everything).
Basically what it does is install all other packages you need if you are going to rebuild a package from source. This ends up saving a lot of time since you then know that you have everything when it comes time to compile.
You probably already knew about it - but just in case…
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