From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB6F138AFA for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9F6BE0C9D; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CB80E0C81 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([84.133.160.84]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M2tXS-1Y1hu231zK-00si3j for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:35:44 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 10:35:43 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Raiders of the lost package... Message-ID: <20141102093543.GF3864@solfire> References: <20141102061011.GA3864@solfire> <53abe58d-4f90-4be7-a3cb-834204095589@email.android.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53abe58d-4f90-4be7-a3cb-834204095589@email.android.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:3HCIu36LCU5XZAfQLIOvQsnUe9I7LSl55aCIkOEQUX+/zLeBVRa yxAa41gBNLkBj0SU/ULrcbSU4hbKJ+yMJ4jgMYbjnrBI82078xriIU/wHgtX7kOVaYkJ50b lNl5oxPZdANi0e+QglK5hF8U8PGXscGkyXJv5F8bWsiH6Pgajb1xlSFP+l95oay0AkuKeQ4 J9RsCWfrPpxAXEg44wEoA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-Archives-Salt: bdb46041-ce89-4d83-824a-c3aaaa6d43ae X-Archives-Hash: 17826bc609d620ae9cc343d108ae8a56 Neil Bothwick [14-11-02 10:08]: > On 2 November 2014 06:10:11 WET, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Debain everywhere... > > Ubuntu everywhere... > > > > "To use this library just do a apt-get build-essential, apt-get this > > and apt-get that...your done". > > > > Hrrrmpppfff.... > > > > What the heck is "build-essential?" What's hidden behind it? > > > > I am currently facing a similiar problem: I am trying to get > > a TFT display running. For using this library to access this TFT > > one "only" needs to do a ...guess... "apt-get python smbus". > > > > Neither "smbus' nor "I2C" produces any match in the output of > > eix... > > > > What's that package? Is it in Gentoo? > > > > Any help is very appreciated :) > > > > Best regards, > > mcc > > build-essential is a meta-package for the tools needed to build from source, which are already there in Gentoo. > > I use packages.debian.org to see what is in a package, or to see which package contains a file, then eix and educated guesswork usually takes care of the rest. > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Hi Neil, thanks for the hint! :) Best regards, Meino