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…