Compiling Under Debian

[Steve Holmes]

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Well I guess I have to go and find another mirror!!! I like
easynews.com for its speed but I keep getting '404' errors on these
lib dev packages.  I can't even lookup the change logs on
libstd-6.4.3.  

This brings me to another question.  Since I picked the appropriate
mirror during installation, I don't know how to pick a new one now
that I have a running system.  I've been generally using aptitude with
good results up til now but these 404's got me down.  I'll be looking
around for a way to reconfigure this thing <sigh>.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:01:28PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> On Debian, the library packages often come in two parts, one part is
> sufficient to support precompiled applications, and the other part
> containing the necessary headers etc. needed to compile sources. Those
> second parts are often not automatically installed along with the first
> parts. They will end with "-dev" (for development).
> 
> So type "aptcache search <library name>" and you will be shown all the
> various packages associated with a given library, then just install the
> missing "-dev" package, and your compiles will work fine.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:46:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I've got a testing version of Lenny here but can't find the C standard
> > headers.  I've installed every imaginable package pertaining to gcc
> > and friends but when I go to compile any c programs like espeakup, I
> > get not found errors all over the place for simple header files like
> > stdio.h, errno.h, and so forth.  I know these to be standard c headers
> > but the basic gcc package in debian doesn't seem to have them.  I also
> > installed libstd-6-4-3... but still no joy.  What the hell am I
> > missing here? I like Debian's package management strategy but I really
> > wish they wouldn't split up some critical packages this way.  As far
> > as right now is concerned, I cannot compile any c programs.
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