Re: List of dependencies for compiling

[Alec Teal]

On 17/01/13 21:05, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 17 January 2013 15:55, Alec Teal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 17/01/13 20:51, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > > On 17 January 2013 15:44, Alec Teal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can I please have a list of package names?
> > >   From the actual Debian packaging for Octave 3.6.3:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-octave/octave.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;h=2aaed93db3323b02cb80fb5f4ad539d96bf66b97;hb=664fad81e8da21380ba626ce9a9accff2c593a6d#l8
> > Thanks for the quick response! In order to save myself some work is there an
> > easy way to use that file? I know very little about package management.
> Setup a deb-src line in your /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to this PPA:
>
>     https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/stable
>
> And use "sudo apt-get build-dep octave".
>
> You may also just install the packages from this PPA without compiling
> them yourself.
>
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
Linux Mint doesn't provide the deb-src's in it's default list (annoying, 
don't know why) what would the full line be? deb-src (that link) doesn't 
work, I'm guessing it needs some other stuff after it, without knowing 
(as opposed to speculating) on what they do I would like a definite answer.