On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:43:38AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
Op 29-10-10 00:49, Glyph Lefkowitz schreef:
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.
I did not know that one yet, thanks. I tried that on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Jaunty went end-of-life a month ago, time to upgrade?
It returns rather a lot:
$ sudo apt-get build-dep --dry-run python Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ... 0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Somehow I doubt that I need TeX to build python.
Why is it a build-dep, anyway? Python's documentation sources are now ReStructuredText, not LaTeX -- since 2.6, I think. I don't believe there are PDFs shipped in python2.x-doc packages. Is it an obsolete build dependency from earlier times? Marius Gedminas -- Favorite MAC error message: "Not enough memory to eject disk!"