On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 11:01:53PM -0400, Rodney Green wrote: > Hello. I recently installed a base Debian system by using the rescue and > root floppies and installing the rest from the Internet. Since I installed > only the bare system I didn't have a compiler installed (at least I don't > think I did) and couldn't build some stuff I downloaded. I want to build and > install the latest version of Postfix but I'm getting a Make error message > about missing something (see below). My question is.. What are the required > libraries and packages needed to compile most software? I'm used to using > Slackware and it installed most everything I needed. I'm new to Debian > and I'm uncertain on what all I need. > > The make process is failing with this message: > > No <db.h> include file found. > Install the appropriate db*-devel package first. > > Thanks! > Rod
I'm not familiar with compiling postfix, but if you set your sources.list to include source, you can run 'apt-get --build-dep postfix' and it will downloaded the needed dependencies. If you want to build a newer version than the Debian source, you might need some additional, but this should get you there in most cases. Adding -s to the above command will show you what apt-get wants to download without actually getting any files. You can then download the Debian source and create a package with 'apt-get -b source postfix'. You can set the source information to unstable or testing, even if you are running stable (or to unstable if you are running testing). I have often done this to get a newer version of a package than exists in my distribution. It doesn't always work, but I've had pretty good success. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
