Re: very basic questions: ubuntu

[Jesse Ross]

> I am trying to install gnustep-startup on an ubuntu system (debian).
>
> I installed gobjc, but I get the following error:
>
> E281 Error
> I don't seem to be able to use your Objective-C compiler to produce
> working binaries!  Please check your Objective-C compiler installation.
> [...]

Make sure you have the objc compiler and runtime: libobjc1 and  
gobjc-3.3 or 3.4. See below for more info.

> I also get missing libraries: libjpeg, libtiff and libpng -- what are  
> the
> names of the packages that I need to install? Or do I have to compile  
> them
> myself? Note that I already have libtiff4 on my system, but the  
> installer
> can't seem to find it.

I was new to this recently too, and you need to make sure you're  
installing -dev versions of the libs to get it to properly install.  
What I did was just start here:

http://gnustep.made-it.com/BuildGuide/

Then go through here:

http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? 
keywords=libtiff&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all

And just enter all the packages in the above to find out their proper  
names, then it's pretty trivial to apt-get them.

> While we're at it, what is the package for ffcall?

ffcall is ffcall1 and ffcall1-dev and can be seen here:  
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl? 
version=testing&subword=1&exact=&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive& 
keywords=ffcall&searchon=names


Hope that helps!

J.