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On 2 November 2014 06:10:11 WET, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Debain everywhere... |
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> Ubuntu everywhere... |
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> "To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this |
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> and apt-get that...your done". |
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> Hrrrmpppfff.... |
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> What the heck is "build-essential?" What's hidden behind it? |
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> I am currently facing a similiar problem: I am trying to get |
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> a TFT display running. For using this library to access this TFT |
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> one "only" needs to do a ...guess... "apt-get python smbus". |
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> Neither "smbus' nor "I2C" produces any match in the output of |
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> eix... |
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> What's that package? Is it in Gentoo? |
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> Any help is very appreciated :) |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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build-essential is a meta-package for the tools needed to build from source, which are already there in Gentoo. |
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I use packages.debian.org to see what is in a package, or to see which package contains a file, then eix and educated guesswork usually takes care of the rest. |
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