Subject: Re: compiling MOL modules on Debian?
From: Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick (rafial@well.com)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 14:13:34 MST
>The new apt-file package can help here. Alternatively,
>http://packages.debian.org can also search for the package that contains
>a file.
>
>120)pug$ apt-file search dh_testdir
>debhelper
Thanks. I tried using apt-cache search, but obviously apt-file was
what I needed
>If you used a frontend to apt (I've found aptitude to be fairly good)
>rather than apt-get itself, this likely would have been installed
>automatically along with mol-modules-source, since that recommends the
>debhelper package. Unfortunately apt-get only handles required
>dependencies, it doesn't do anything with recommended packages.
Curious: Why is it a recommends and not a requires if it is needed
for a successful make?
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