On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:57:54PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > My question: Why did apt-get think I needed so much additional material?
Welcome to the world of dependencies. .debs are binaries, libraries, docos and friends. They dont contain source code that you build against the libraries and headers that are installed on your system, when you do an apt-get install. To check what a package depends on use apt-cache depends [package] Below URL is based on RPM, but will give you an insight into package management and _dependency hell_. http://www.germane-software.com/~ser/Files/Essays/RPM_Hell.html -- Rene Cunningham DCLabs Pty Ltd http://www.dclabs.com.au ---------------------------------------- MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
