How Do I Deal With Package Dependencies?
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 last week and decided to learn how to compile programs. So, I went out to sourceforge and downloaded something- stellarium. It doesn't really matter what it is, I just want to practice the process.
So, during the installation it complained about not having qmake. I tried using apt-get to get the qt4 library with no success. I also tried using synaptic, but libqt4 wasn't listed.
So I found the package located at http://
Didn't work.
On the libqt4 page it shows that there are several dependencies, and then each of these packages have dependencies for them as well.
Is there an easy way to get around all this? Am I expected to spend hours and hours downloading library packages and their dependencies and their dependencies dependencies every time I want to go to sourceforge and download something?
Why are the packages available from packages.ubuntu.com but they don't download with apt-get or synaptic?
Is this was being a Linux user is all about?
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