any shortcut to install all dev-related packages?

[Florian Diesch]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:

>    i just found the task definition file  
> /usr/share/tasksel/ubuntu-tasks.desc, but i'm disappointed that  
> there's no "task" to turn my stock 10.04 laptop into a development  
> workstation -- that is, installing the various compilers,  
> interpreters, linkers, autotools packages, version control tools and  
> so on.

All of them? Why do you want this?

You can run
  sudo apt-get build-dep some_package
to install anything that's needed to build some_package. 

   Florian
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