On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 02:44:53PM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Thu, March 17, 2011 2:17 pm, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> >
> > $ rpm -qf $(which vim)
> > $ sudo apt-get build-dep [whatever the prior command reported]
> >
> > (or combined:)
> > $ rpm -qf --qf='%{NAME}\n' $(which vim) | xargs sudo apt-get build-dep
>
> I doubt there is any Debian based distribution, that uses rpm ;)
> Instead of the rpm command, use
> dpkg -S $(which vim)
And:
$ dpkg -S $(which vim) | wc -l
...
17478
makes "[whatever the prior command reported]" awkward to put on the
command line. However, I simply settled for:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep vim
That was near enough for nearly 2 a.m. (It fetched tens times what I
really needed, I think, but it built.)
Erik
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