On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:35:15AM -0500, MK wrote: > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:33 -0500 > Jason Self wrote: > > sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev > > > > It's there. > > > > > Never had any problems like this on any other debian derived system > > > I have worked on, and there have been a few. _I'm a programmer and > > > do a lot of source building, never had any problem finding dev libs > > > with apt. _At all. > > > > And yet you didn't find this.... > > Well -- I did not really believe that there is no dev package available > for glib on gnewsense. It would be completely infeasible without > that. My point was that it does not show up when searching the > repository. If, as a long term debian user, this happens to me, that > kind of implies the problem is not my inability to use or understand > apt (which I have for years) but that there *must be* some peculiar > issue with the gnewsenes repository.
I can't comment on whether a debian repository search is different than one on gnewsense. But on debian #apt-cache search frequently returns unsatisfactory results, and I mostly relegated it to search for "broad search for results that have *something* to with X" eg apt-cache search cdrom For packages of which you already have an indication of the name I've found apt-cache pkgnames | grep TERM (in your case: #apt-cache pkgnames | grep glib | grep dev) a faster way to find the exact name of a particular package. friendly, Andreas _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users