[arch-general] How to obtain development headers for package

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Tue Feb 23 18:15:31 EST 2010


On 24.02.2010 00:11, Michishige Kaito wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Maybe I'm just not understanding how Arch works, so please forgive my
> ignorance. I come from ubuntu, and there you get development headers for
> most packages by following the naming convention, which is package-dev. A
> quick apt-cache search package | grep dev would yield the right package.
> Now, I'm trying to obtain these on my fresh arch, but can't seem to find
> anything through pacman search or google. Anyone could hint me in the right
> direction?
>
> If it's useful, I need the dev headers for sqlite3.
>
>   
The headers are usually included in the package unless it is a special
package of some kind. The only package I know where headers are split
due to their size is the kernel-headers pacakge.

Welcome to Arch, have a nice trip.

-- Sven-Hendrik


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