Compiling your own Applications from Source.

[Chris Peterman]

If you got it from Apt (using apt-get source <package>) then executing
sudo apt-get build-dep <package> will install everything needed for it. 

If not, its best to read the README and INSTALL files from the Tarball.
It should tell you what you need.

At a MINIMUM you are going to need build-essential.

The ./configure script (when it fails due to depends) is generally good.
Use dlocate (sudo apt-get install dlocate) to find out what package
provides the missing file(s). Trial and Error are best :D

~ Chris Peterman 

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 21:19 -0700, Holger Rumland wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I would like to compile some gnome/gkt applications by my own from the
> source tarball. Therefore I
> need to know which packages need to be installed, so that this process
> will run successful. Unfortunate
> there is no Meta package which would install the required packages all
> at once. 
> 
> a) what packages are required ?
> b) is there some parameter required with ./config like (./config
> --suffix) ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> 
> 
> 
> Holger
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