Re: X development libraries

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, 29 May 2025 at 20:08, Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs
text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> It would help to have the dependency install instructions in the emacs
> install documentation.  It is difficult to know what is actually required
> on a new Trisquel 11 installation.
>
> Whether the following or something else
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential texinfo libx11-dev libxpm-dev libjpeg-dev
>  libpng-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libgtk2.0-dev libncurses-dev gnutls-dev
>  libgtk-3-dev

Since you are on a Debian-based distribution, you can use ‘sudo
apt-get build-dep emacs-gtk’ and it will pull all development
libraries necessary to build the distribution-provided version of
Emacs.

When building a more recent version, you might still encounter a
missing dependency; in that case, it helps to know that on Debian
development library packages are customarily named ‘lib*-dev’.