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 -- /* Halley */ (Halley's comment.) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20220811062906.khin5c4ddh6vmmrg%40blynas.
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