Sunday, February 28, 2010

Re: FedoraCore 8

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Matt Wozniski wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:
> > So, you might have 'curses' or 'ncurses' installed, but you also
> > need 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-dev' (I don't know the correct
> > name).
> >
> > You'll probably need several such packages.  The following is
> > probably your easiest approach:
> >
> >> Matt Wozniski wrote on February 11th:
> >>
> >> > Or just "sudo apt-get build-dep vim" to get all of the
> >> > dependencies needed to build the version that's in the
> >> > repositories.  In theory, that might not be all of the things you
> >> > need to build a vim that you're ./configuring yourself, since it
> >> > won't include headers needed for features that aren't compiled
> >> > into vim-gnome.  In practice, though, vim-gnome includes nearly
> >> > all features, so that's not really a problem.  At the very least,
> >> > it's the best jumping off point, since the worst case is that you
> >> > need to track down one or two more missing packages.
>
> Unfortunately, that only works on deb-based systems, not RPM ones.
> I'd hope that RPM based systems have something similar, but I don't
> know about it; all of the Linux systems I've ever admin'ed have been
> Debian-derived.

Ah, sorry. I haven't used either RPM- or deb-based distros for a very
long time, much preferring Gentoo.

Googling 'fedora apt-get build-dep' suggests the Fedora version of that
command is:

yum-builddep vim-enhanced

--
Best,
Ben

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