debian dependecy hell

[Peter L. Peres]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Hooman Baradaran wrote:

> Are you installing the required packages via apt or individually? I've 
> never seen a packages that depends on more then one level of packages 
> that are NOT in apt. And if such a thing exists they normally provide an 
> apt source rather than individual packages. Are you familiar with 
> apt-get.org? It contains non-official apt sources that might help. A 
> little slow though...

I did not know about apt-get.org . I will check this out.

I want to compile a package that exists as source only and it seems to 
need a lot of libraries. These are, specifically:

- I have determined the missing packages by collecting the missing headers 
from a failed makefile. These are:

atk.h
atkobject.h
gdkconfig.h
glib-object.h
gspawn.h
pango-font.h
pango.h
raw1394.h

- then using the apt tools I determined that these headers come from the 
following debian packages:

libglib2.0-dev
libpango1-ruby
libraw1394-dev

- then I tried to apt-get them but upon attempted install the error 
messages I attached to the previous email appeared instead, and none 
installed. It appears that they, in turn, depend on other packages. These 
need to update existing packages on my system. I would like to avoid that.

To rephrase my questions: given I have libpkg-xyz-111 installed how do I 
locate its corresponding libpkg-xyz-111-dev ? I.e. what goes with what ? 
Remember I am on a modem internet connection.

Peter

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