On Wednesday 10 March 2004 03:20, Sarwat H wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to Debian and I'm trying to put together a list of > packages I need for a web+mail+dns server. I don't want X or any other > useless stuff on it (from a server's perspective), however, I do want to > be able to compile software and rebuild kernel if needed. I'm thinking > about installing the base OS and then adding the required packages > manually (e.g. apache, postfix, bind, MySQL, Perl etc) > > My questions are: > > 1. what packages do I need for a complete C development env ? and what > does it include ?
The easy way is running tasksel and selecting "C and C++" under "Development". > 2. When I download and install a package with apt-get install, is there a > way to find out what other packages/dependecies will be installed along > with the main package ? Apt does this pr. default. Here is an example: # apt-get install mysql-server Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient10 libmysqlclient12 mysql-client mysql-common Suggested packages: mysql-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient10 libmysqlclient12 mysql-client mysql-common mysql-server 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 5059kB of archives. After unpacking 12.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] So you see, it shows every package that is going to be installed and it shows that the mysql-doc package is sugested to. You might want that one to :) > > Thx for the help. Your welcome -- Ole-Christian S. Hagenes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]