<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Heh, agreed. That bites me on about every third machine I set up for<br>the first time. The Usual Suspects (TM) are whatever the local<br>packaging system calls the following (and their -dev or -devel packages,<br>if split out):<br><br>- - zlib<br>- - ncurses<br>- - bz2<br>- - readline<br>- - openssl<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>On Debian, there's a handy shortcut: 'apt-get build-dep', which will install the build dependencies for any given source package. So 'apt-get build-dep python' will get you all set to build Python.</div><div><br></div></body></html>