Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: development libraries

[Sam Geeraerts]

MK schreef:
> I suppose that is it -- unfortunately there is *zero info* on
> repositories on the gnewsense site!  

What kind of info would you like to see? Most of the website is a freely 
editable wiki, so if you can help with this, please do.

> But this is based on ubuntu 8.04 right, so I can guess I can just
> import packages from there.   Altho that seems to defeat the
> purpose somewhat.

Indeed. There might be some free packages from Ubuntu's multiverse repo 
that we don't carry, but take caution when importing from there. This is 
not something we encourage.

> > Are you perhaps looking for libglib2.0-dev? Development libraries are 
> > sometimes hard to find, so you have to be persistent and creative. :)
>
> I doubt that is the problem -- just doing "apt search dev" turns up
> next to nothing.  If by "hard to find" you mean, not listed or
> unavailable, I guess hard it will be.

On my deltah system:
$ apt-cache search dev | wc -l
5008
$ aptitude search dev | wc -l
2772

> Never had any problems like this on any other debian derived system I
> have worked on, and there have been a few.  I'm a programmer and do a
> lot of source building, never had any problem finding dev libs with
> apt.  At all.