Compiling Under Debian

[John covici]

Look at your /etc/apt/sources.list -- everything is in there and once
you change anything be sure to do an apt-get update.

on Friday 10/17/2008 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) 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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