On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:08:39 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ahh. OK. Getting used to what a distro calls each package is a learning > experience. I was looking for a package ncurses, not libncurses5-dev and > I didn't know about the build-essential package. Bruce, http://packages.ubuntu.com/ is useful. It can search for package names, but I also find the 2nd form on that page "Search the contents of packages" really useful when I know what header file (or lib) I'm missing and haven't a clue what package they may have packaged it in. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
