ubuntu repository question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:26:11PM -0400, bob 295 wrote:
> I have recently setup a Linode to help expand the reach of my online Linux 
> programming course.
> 
> I chose to install the Ubuntu Lucid on my Linode partition.   The Linode 
> Ubuntu image is very basic and doesn't include a lot of the build tools I'll 
> need for my course.    Unfortunately,  I'm an Ubuntu novice,  even though I'm 
> an experienced Linux developer.
> 
> The Ubuntu repository online search capability isn't all that helpful.   It is 
> more a catalog of available stuff,  but doesn't put that stuff in context.   
> 
> Is there an easy way to "discover" what packages I would need to get tools 
> like GCC,  make,  Tcl/Tk etc?  or does one have to go by trial and error?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your response.

Well on debian I would do this:

apt-get install build-essential

Also 'apt-cache search keywords' is handy for finding packages.

synaptic is a gui version if you think that's better.

To get the stuff needed to build a specific package you can do:

apt-get build-dep packagename

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