The name of the gtkmm 2.4 dev package on Debian and Ubuntu is
libgtkmm-2.4-dev, not libgtkmm2.4-dev.  The tutorial and the download
page give the wrong name.

Patch to fix the tutorial:

Index: docs/tutorial/gtkmm-tut.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gtkmm/docs/tutorial/gtkmm-tut.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -u -p -r1.78 gtkmm-tut.xml
--- docs/tutorial/gtkmm-tut.xml 24 Nov 2006 19:00:22 -0000      1.78
+++ docs/tutorial/gtkmm-tut.xml 27 Nov 2006 12:24:40 -0000
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ applications and libraries:
 </para>
 <para>
     The names of the &gtkmm; packages vary from distribution to distribution
-    (e.g. <application>libgtkmm2.4-dev</application> on Debian and Ubuntu or
+    (e.g. <application>libgtkmm-2.4-dev</application> on Debian and Ubuntu or
     <application>gtkmm24-devel</application> on Red Hat Fedora), so check with
     your distribution's package management program for the correct package name
     and install it like you would any other package.
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ applications and libraries:
 The package names will not change when new API/ABI-compatible
versions of &gtkmm;
 are released. Otherwise they would not be API/ABI-compatible. So don't be
 surprised, for instance, to find &gtkmm; 2.8 supplied by Debian's
-<application>libgtkmm2.4-dev</application> package.
+<application>libgtkmm-2.4-dev</application> package.
 </para>
 </note>
 </sect2>


-- 
Malcolm Parsons
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