On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Gavin Romig-Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  One of the things that's worth learning when trying to build software
>  distributed as source on top of software distributed as binary packages
>  is how to get your packaging system to tell you what package has a
>  particular header, library, or command.  On RPM based distros it's "yum
>  whatprovides"  (so when I ran across this same error I typed "yum
>  whatprovides /usr/include/readline/readline.h", header files are almost
>  always put in /usr/include); I assume apt provides something similar,
>  but I don't know what it is.

There isn't an 'apt' equivalent, but for Ubuntu this discussion

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411719

offers a reasonable if inelegant workaround -- visit
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and use the "search in packages" feature.

Graham

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