Building from source for ubuntu

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 04:26:06AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, July 07, 2013 13:17:31 monarch_dodra wrote:
> > On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:57:08 UTC, David wrote:
> > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/precise/libcurl-dev
> > > Should do it, on Ubuntu/Debian you always need the "-dev" or
> > > "-devel" packages if you want to link against something or use the
> > > header files
> > 
> > Most awesome. Got it to work installing "libcurl-dev".
> > 
> > I wasted about 30 minutes after trying every flavor of
> > "curllib-[dev|devel]", then typoing the work "instal" without
> > reading the exact error message :D
> > 
> > In any case, I got it to work. I'll update the wiki to be a bit
> > more hand-holding in respect to a few things.
> 
> I would have suggested searching the list of packages for anything
> containing curl, in which case, it should have been easy enough to
> figure out which one you needed. I'm sure that Ubuntu has a command
> for searching the list of packages rather than having to try and guess
> what a package is called.
[...]

apt-cache search libcurl | grep dev

:)


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