Awesome.. I didnt know about the apt-cache command.. Thanks a bunch
-Steve
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:26:44AM -0800, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:22:40AM -0800, Steve wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to install something that requires OpenSSL,
> > so I installed OpenSSL, but the program I went to install needs the header
> > files for it. With debian apt-get how can I insall the headers for open
> > ssl?
> >
> > -Steve
> >
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> > -- Lao-Tzu
>
> In Debian all the library packages have "lib" at the beginning of the
> package name, so the ssl library package is called "libssl" but the header
> files all have "dev" in the package name. The openssl development package
> (for header files and such) is libssl-dev
>
> You can always check what packages are available for a keyword by typing:
> apt-cache search <keyword>
>
> For instance, apt-cache search openssl turned up a good deal of packages
> that dealt with or used openssl in some way.
>
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