Missing files

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Darryl Clarke wrote:

> On 25/01/06, Bob Nielsen <nielsen at oz.net> wrote:
>> While trying compilation source code recently, I had some error
>> messages about missing some includes.  I checked and the files were
>> not there.  I know that they should have been included in an
>> installed package, but somehow they do not exist on my system.
>> Reinstalling that package did not correct the situation.  Here are
>> the specifics:
>>
>> $ apt-file list libax25 |grep include
> [snip]
>
> apt-file searches all known files regardless of their installed state.
>
>>
>>
>> $ dpkg -L libax25|grep include
>
> This command won't have any include files shown since there are none
> in the 'libax25' package.  They are in 'libax25-dev'
>
>>
>> My /usr/include/netax25 directory only includes ax25.h, which is
>> installed by libc6-dev.  If the other files are not there, why
>> doesn't reinstalling libax25 correct the problem?
>
> Try installing libax25-dev
> [snip]
> HTH.

Yes, that was my problem--somehow had forgotten all about the -dev.   
Since apt-file searches using a pattern rather than the package name,  
it showed them when I used libax25 although they are in libax25-dev.   
I was about to reinstall breezy and am glad I didn't rush into doing  
that.  Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious to me  
but wasn't!

Bob