[ooo-build] Wiki pages update

Octavio Alvarez alvarezp at alvarezp.ods.org
Sun Mar 28 12:28:37 PDT 2010


On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:02:09 -0700, Abhishek Anand  
<abhishek.anand.iitg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I ended up wasting a lot of time in installing packages one by one as the
> configure script failed repeatedly complaining about missing packages.
> It failed > 20 time and often it was difficult to locate the exact  
> package
> to be installed for a complaint.
> 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 openoffice.org".
This installs a lot of required *-dev packages and building tools.

-- 
Octavio.


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