Imagine you want to install the latest version of xyz from source on your Debian system. You run ./configure and… BLAM!!! You get a ton of errors because of libraries that aren’t installed.

Well, this won’t happen anymore, thanks to a very user-friendly utility called auto-apt.

To install it:

  apt-get install auto-apt

Then, enjoy the pleasure of ./configure without errors. To use it, just type:

  auto-apt run ./configure

instead. That’s all. If apt detects an error due to a missing file, it will kindly offer to install it for you.

Just remember to update its databases regularly with:

  auto-apt update
auto-apt updatedb
auto-apt update-local

Note: auto-apt works with any command that might need missing files: auto-apt run command.

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Last updated 28 Nov 2006, 07:48 +0200. history