Sinppet from
http://littlesvr.ca/grumble/2012/12/...ianubuntumint/
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It always pissed me off big time that the more popular Linux distros don’t install the development files (like header files) or the documentation for the software that comes with them. Being a developer – this is a big pain in the ass for me. It became a really big pain in the ass when I switched from Slackware to Linux Mint a couple of months ago.
I’m no free software fanatic, but damn, why the hell not include the development tools and documentation with Linux? Not only will that make my life easier, but it may encourage some other people to dabble in programming on Linux. Otherwise, do you know what a serious roadblock it is to get a newbie to figure out that there’s a metapackage called build-essential and a package called libgtk2.0-dev which you have to type in exactly like that, with the lib and the dot and the (wrong) version and the dash and the dev? Hell, it’s easier to set up a development environment in Windows (you should be ashamed, Debian).
Whining about it would have been enough, but I actually needed to solve this problem, so here is the solution
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I'm sure this will be useful for many more people than just me
Would be awesome if this script ended up in a default Debian installation, but I don't quite know how to make that happen.
