How do you know what development packages to install before compiling a program from source?
91650
Get list of required libraries when installing something from source
73749
How to find manually installed packages?
105159
How to create a meta-package that automatically installs other packages?
42634
How do I upgrade to the development release (aka. Ubuntu+1)?
26151
How do I create a package from an existing notebook?
22736
How do I find the build dependencies of a package?
50801
Where should I put software I compile myself?
31953
How to automatically fetch missing dependencies when installing software from .deb?
20098
How to identify platform/compiler from preprocessor macros?
9734
What program can be used to package software into one executable?
111666
How to compile c & c++ programs?
28875
Installing applications from source
69489
How do I figure out what package something is in without resorting to Google?
94102
How do I add a software source?
80265
How to design a command inquiring internally required packages?
77824
How do I build Unity from source?
60394
How to determine the size of a package while using apt prior to downloading?