[mythtv-users] 0.27 compile from git pull error

[Nicolas Riendeau]

On 2013-09-20 7:48 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> On 20 September 2013 21:41, Nicolas Riendeau <knight at teksavvy.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, he did credit somebody else for that line (but he is not alone... (-; )
>> but I am pretty sure he would have figured out the others...
>>
>
> determining the name of the package to install isn't always a straight
> forward thing...

If guessing doesn't work googling for it usually does wonders...

> more often than not, I know which development header I want but I have
> no idea how the package got named and you have to google it.

Yes and this is what he would have had to do...

>
> apt-get build-dep mythtv would have resolved all issues at once ...
>
> its just the better approach than having to deal with individual package name

As I said in my email I do not use Ubuntu (or even a Debian derivative 
if that comes from Debian) and I did even warn him that the name of the 
package *might* be wrong because of that...

I am sorry but we can't all be gurus like you...

Nicolas