Compiling Under Debian

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Try these:

deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:42:14PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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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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