On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:43:38AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Op 29-10-10 00:49, Glyph Lefkowitz schreef: > >On Debian, there's a handy shortcut: 'apt-get build-dep', which will > >install the build dependencies for any given source package. So 'apt-get > >build-dep python' will get you all set to build Python. > > I did not know that one yet, thanks. I tried that on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Jaunty went end-of-life a month ago, time to upgrade? > It returns rather a lot: > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep --dry-run python > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: ... > 0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > > > Somehow I doubt that I need TeX to build python. Why is it a build-dep, anyway? Python's documentation sources are now ReStructuredText, not LaTeX -- since 2.6, I think. I don't believe there are PDFs shipped in python2.x-doc packages. Is it an obsolete build dependency from earlier times? Marius Gedminas -- Favorite MAC error message: "Not enough memory to eject disk!"
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