Thank you Octavio,Thorsten and Miklos for your replies. It will surely be helpful for many. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Thorsten Behrens <<a href="mailto:thb@openoffice.org" target="_blank">thb@openoffice.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Octavio Alvarez wrote: > >Won't it be great if a list of names of pre-requisite packages for each > >platform is uploaded at wiki? > >Or is there a smarter way which I couldn't figure out as a newcomer? > > Some distributions include a way to install building prerequisites. > > For example in Debian, you would use "apt-get build-dep <a href="http://openoffice.org" target="_blank">openoffice.org</a>". > This installs a lot of required *-dev packages and building tools. > </div>Yes, and opensuse e.g. has "zypper si -d OpenOffice_org-bootstrap" Problem with fixed lists are that they're a moving target & likely outdated when you need them. Nevertheless, here's it for a bunch of distros: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Distribution-Specific_Build_Instructions" target="_blank">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Distribution-Specific_Build_Instructions</a> Cheers, -- Thorsten </blockquote></div>