On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Gavin Romig-Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the things that's worth learning when trying to build software > distributed as source on top of software distributed as binary packages > is how to get your packaging system to tell you what package has a > particular header, library, or command. On RPM based distros it's "yum > whatprovides" (so when I ran across this same error I typed "yum > whatprovides /usr/include/readline/readline.h", header files are almost > always put in /usr/include); I assume apt provides something similar, > but I don't know what it is.
There isn't an 'apt' equivalent, but for Ubuntu this discussion http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411719 offers a reasonable if inelegant workaround -- visit http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and use the "search in packages" feature. Graham _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
