build-essential

Informational list of build-essential packages
 
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If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this package. Starting with dpkg (>= 1.14.18) this package is required for building Debian packages.

This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for building Debian packages. This package also depends on the packages on that list, to make it easy to have the build-essential packages installed.

If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the package. Conversely, if you are determining what your package needs to build-depend on, you can always leave out the packages this package depends on.

This package is NOT the definition of what packages are build-essential; the real definition is in the Debian Policy Manual. This package contains merely an informational list, which is all most people need. However, if this package and the manual disagree, the manual is correct.
Latest reviews
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JE77 11 months ago

Very Good!

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AtoshDustosh 3 years ago

A basic for EVERYTHING

5
joesizzlin 4 years ago

perfect and a must (using with code::blocks ide)

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V_V_V 6 years ago

Essential

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gustavokreischer 9 years ago

I had a problem with codeblocks, with stdio.h, and this package solved for me. Is the best package for developers.

5
gdk2008uk 9 years ago

This is a must if you are using MONO IDE or Code::Blocks IDE, also if you don't have then GCC,G++ won't build anything exciting required OK.

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xXxQuiquexXx 9 years ago

Genial!!!

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jahid_0903014 9 years ago

This is an essential package if you want to build packages for ubuntu/debian

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armanac 9 years ago

The first thing for Developing C++ (As my opinion)

5
sa3paleasm 9 years ago

Great

5
krotow 11 years ago

Linux software developers must have it. The best package for less fuss, when we need to compile tar.gz/configure based packages. And my work also depends from it hard.

5
alinourzad 12 years ago

a must for developers

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trollboy 13 years ago

A must have if you want to compile software with as few headaches as possible. This does not include headaches caused by writing software....

5
RavS 13 years ago

Name is self explanatory!

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plume 13 years ago

essential!

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naholyr 13 years ago

One package to compile them all ;)

5
dalek 13 years ago

This is always the first package I install.

5
Sol_Badguy 13 years ago

Necessary to compile...

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ChirmiPlay 13 years ago

Muy útil. Es el primer paso para compilar un kernel.

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sigma-ml 14 years ago

This package is essential for compiling a variety of custom software, including libraries and languages.