Compiling Under Debian

[Erik Heil]

Hi, Steve.
If you want to reconfigure the mirrors that Apt and friends use for
repositories, you can manually edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and
just replace the name of the machine with whatever mirror you want.  For
me, mirrors.kernel.org is a really good site--I will see on a regular
basis speeds in excess of 10mbits/sec.  This is because at any one given
time, the machine is not using no where near the bandwidth it is
provisioned for.  That machine has an 100mbit connection to the outside
world.
Bare in mind that all the configuration scripts do in installation is to
just script and write the sources.list(5) file from whatever mirror the
user chooses.  So its not that hard to do.  Hope this helps.
user choose during

--Erik

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:42:14 -0700
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>     <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Compiling Under Debian
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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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