On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 01:31:27PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2022-08-10, 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
> > Not trying to be difficult or insulting or anything like that, but so it 
> > boils
> > down to, no, there is no easy way to do it.
> > You (i.e., me) just have to figure it out.  By the way, my system doesn't 
> > have
> > "build-dep".  It says no such package.
> > 
> > Right?
> 
> From that error message, it appears that you tried to install
> build-dep as a package rather than use it as a command.
> 
> On my system, Ubuntu 20.04, and according to my notes, also when it
> was 18.04, the command is just
> 
>     $ sudo apt build-dep vim-gtk3

One important note is that 'sudo apt build-dep' requires you to have
deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, which are not present in default
Ubuntu installs.

Marius Gedminas
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