Building from source for ubuntu

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 18:02:03 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 19:51 +0200, John Colvin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> But libcurl and libcurl-dev are likely different packages.

yes...?? If you type "apt-get install libcurl" and then press 
tab, it prints out a list of all package names that start with 
libcurl.