What does the "build-essential" & "build-dep" Terminal commands mean & do in Linux based operating s
- by Adam Siddhi
Hi.
I am researching how to install Ruby 1.9.1 in Xubuntu 10.04 and I came across the command build-essential and build-dep multiple times. Sometimes it is followed by packages and sometimes it is both preceded and post-ceded by packages.
The 2 examples I am looking at are:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
zlib1g zlib1g-dev zlibc libruby1.9
libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
sudo apt-get build-dep ruby1.9
and
sudo apt-get install ruby irb ri rdoc
ruby1.8-dev libzlib-ruby libyaml-ruby
libreadline-ruby libncurses-ruby
libcurses-ruby libruby libruby-extras
libfcgi-ruby1.8 build-essential
libopenssl-ruby libdbm-ruby
libdbi-ruby libdbd-sqlite3-ruby
sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libsqlite3-ruby
libxml-ruby libxml2-dev
Thanks
:adam