Building from source for ubuntu

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 07:50 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> […]
>> apt-cache search libcurl | grep dev
>
> aptitude search libcurl.*dev
>
> surely. :-)

to be honest, most of the time I would just write "apt-get 
install licurl" and then look through the rest using tab 
completion. Doesn't work for more complex cases, but it's often 
enough.