Find all package dependencies for source install

[_Gentoo_Nile_]

Hello friends, I am using linux from quite long time, I currently use Ubuntu 9.04 and eagerly waiting for 9.10 to release. My question is when i install any package from source, if there are missing dependencies, i have to install them first. But the problem occurs when there is more then one dependencies. Is there a way to Find all package dependencies for source install? Can anyone help me with this?

[SalVatore]

I think it is this command. Open terminal and browse where you have extracted the source contents and then type this command :

sudo apt-get build-dep package_name

I have not yet tried it as i'm on a windows platform, you can try it out and the post back what happens...

[Solomon]

You should try this command out :

sudo apt-get install auto-apt
sudo auto-apt update
sudo auto-apt updatedb && sudo auto-apt update-local
auto-apt run ./configure

Do post back if this doesn't help... All the best!

[Noverism]

If you want to install a package, and you can't find out what it is called by searching with apt-cache, but know the filename of the program itself, or some other filename that belongs to the package, then you can use apt-file to find the package name. This is done like this:

apt-file search filename

It works just like dpkg -S, but will also show you uninstalled packages that contain the file. It could also be used to find what packages contain necessary include files that are missing when compiling programs, although auto-apt is a much better method of solving such issues, see How to install packages "on demand", Section 5.3.

You can also list the contents of a package, by running:

apt-file list packagename

apt-file keeps a database of which files all packages contain, just like auto-apt does and it needs to be up-to-date. This is done by running:

apt-file update