On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:17:20PM +0000, walt wrote: > <beer-induced-rant> > Just as an aside, I still find debian-based linux distributions a royal > pain the the backside to configure. I give the ubuntu team a lot of > credit for making it better than Debian itself -- but I am not the > least bit tempted to switch away from gentoo for my real machine. > > Just one tiny, self-indulgent example, if I may: When I ran 'configure' > in the pan source directory, the error message told me I didn't have > 'gtk-2.0' installed on my machine. Sure enough, I didn't, so I went > looking for gtk in the list of available ubuntu/debian packages. > > Well, it took me a good while to figure out that the 'gtk' development > packages are named 'libgtk' rather than 'gtk'. On gentoo, by way of > comparison, the required package is named 'gtk'. What a difference > such a trivial thing makes! > </beer-induced-rant>
I feel that after using Debian for a while these kinds of problems go away. The nice thing about Debian is the consistency. Once you know that all development packages are lib* you never need to learn it again. The naming might even be in the Debian policies somewhere. I had this same issue when compiling. When I got that error, though, I did this from the same command line I was compiling at: apt-cache search gtk | grep 2 | grep dev It took just a couple of seconds to find the right package. Over time Debian will start making a lot of sense. And it will make even more sense over a _long_ period of time. I, for example, am running servers that I installed Debian on over 7 years ago and have never "reinstalled" since. I just keep upgrading and upgrading without issues. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
