Hi is there either an easy, or any, way to download all the libraries required for-to build an application, when the libraries are effectively incompatiable with one's system ?
By this I mean : * a way to get apt, lets say, to know all the libraries required * and then get apt, again, to download them specificallly to a specified, non-standard directory As an example, wanting to do some work - not as a debian developer, but just for the project (gnucash, specifically on the DB interface) - the version in etch is 2.0.5 - linking to specific libraries the development version is 2.2.1 - with many different libraries. there is a big difference between the two I want to * download all the libraries into one directory * then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that directory when running and * the libraries will generally be in sid (unstable) * there are many of them, a gnucash problem * the library requirements in turn affect many, many apps * I am NOT going to corrupt my system (i.e. go to unstable) I reckon that many people will have the same problem. I would like to do some work - and I should, I'm a C++ / C programmer - but how to get the pile of libraries I want ? (in a working environment) I also reckon that this problem would have been solved (easily?) by yourselves. Could you let me know how ? thanks if you could cheers Gavrilo
