[RP] Re: problem building ratpoison

[Graham Wilson]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:13:54PM -0400, Jay Cotton wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Trent Buck wrote:
> >Have you installed the *development* libraries?  I suspect you have
> >e.g. libx11 installed but not libx11-dev.
> 
> I think you're right. After I read your email, I attempted to install 
> libx11-dev with:
> 
> $ apt-get install libx11-dev
> 
> but the package couldn't be found. Do you know the name of the package 
> that I should use in this command in order to add the development 
> libraries?

For Debian, you also need to install libxt-dev. If that doesn't work,
try xlibs-dev, and that should do it for good. For history support,
install the libreadline4-dev package.

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gram