[Nottingham] 64 bit linux

[Robert Hart]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Richard Street wrote:

> Iain Moppett wrote:

> My only 2 gripes:
> 
> 1. There is no 'Development' setup available - you have to hunt down 
> gcc, make, autoconf, pygtk, libstdc++ etc,etc when you want to compile 
> stuff and it's a ball-ache the first few times.

Something like (from memory):

apt-get build-dep packagename

and/or

apt-get install build-essential

perhaps? Surely it's not come that far from debian?

Rob



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