Re: Mercurial over Git no success

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2011, 23:19 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimi8MU3VYug6orouHS7GmBJ-Pf27_zj_KO0Sj6c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinro_sSV52aZATAPFAm1SLRq8i4Q1kA2W+wqqH3@mail.gmail.com>

From the INSTALL file:

 - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external
   programs and libraries.  Git can be used without most of them by adding
   the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or
   config.mak file.

        - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it.

...

Per suggestions already made, on ubuntu apt-cache search and apt-cache get are your friends.

jon.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Manuel Doninger <manuel.doninger@googlemail.com> wrote:

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> According to the Install-section in the Pro Git book, you have to
> install some other libraries. See http://progit.org/book/ch1-4.html
>
> Manuel
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:01,  <david@davidwbrown.name> wrote:
>> Hello Gitters, long ago when first starting the project I'm currently running at my company I looked around for a VCS/SCM that would be anywhere better than: CVS/SVN. At first I looked at Git but could not get a version to run on my Ubuntu box. So, I had to settle for Hg. Now, that I'm several months into the web app dev I'm responsible for the hired help has convinced me to switch to Git. Now, I'm back at the same old problem I had months ago that forced me to give up on using Git. Unlike a lot of Unix/Linux based software the usual:
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> Does not work for building Git on my local Ubuntu box (10.10 BTW). Some non-innocuous error condition as follows:
>>
>> cannot find zlib.h
>>
>> Pls advise. David.
>>
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