[gcompris-devel] Noob question re compiling from source

[Shai Berger]

On Sunday 25 September 2011, zezinho wrote:
> Le jeudi 22 septembre 2011 01:19:53, Jeff Mitchell a écrit :
> > 
> > Does it mean that I have to google the packages and install them from
> > source?
> 
> Debian has a way to get all packages needed to compile from source.
> 
> apt-get source gcompris
> 
> should do what you need : 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html
> 
Actually, as the linked page shows, apt-get source will just download the 
sources. To get the build dependency, the command is

apt-get build-dep gcompris

This command is also mentioned under "dependencies" in the gcompris wiki: 
http://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner

Have fun,
	Shai.