On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote: > > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried > > doing "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I > > only have deb-src pointing to testing. (The rest is pointing to > > stable and Adrian Bunk's stuff). > > Use the command > > apt-get build-dep hotplug > > to fulfill hotplugs's build dependencies. Sometimes this will give > you an error that it can't find one (or more) of the packages > needed to fill the build dependancies; if this is the case build > them from source first (using `apt-get build-dep` and `fakeroot > apt-get -b source`).
Cool. When did this feature get into apt-get? Debian's the closest thing to compiling heaven. I better start reading the man page again.
