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. 
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