{"id":246,"date":"2012-03-30T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreness.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2019-12-07T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T00:15:55","slug":"ubuntu-development-bootstrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreness.com\/blog\/archives\/246","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Development Bootstrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux hackers surely already know this, but I’m only sorta a Linux hacker. This post documents a nice process for using apt to prepare an Ubuntu machine for development. In my case, I was trying to build a custom version of irssi<\/a> that is patched to add SSL support to the irssi proxy<\/a> module. Sure, I could have gone about this in the traditional manner, but given that irssi has a fair number of dependencies, it’s easier to let apt do the grunt work for me.<\/p>\n

First, get the toolchain set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
The\u00a0build-essential<\/a>\u00a0and ‘check install’ targets are news to me. Build-essential, as the name suggests, includes some compilers and related tools that would be needed for building just about anything.<\/p>\n
“Checkinstall<\/a>\u00a0keeps track of all files installed by a “make install” or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or distribution.”<\/p>\n
Next, in preparation for building irssi itself, get all the dependencies for irssi. This works because irssi is already in the apt package database, so apt knows what the dependencies are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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sudo apt-get build-dep irssi<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
From there, download the irssi source, patch it, and proceed to build \/ run \/ install it (perhaps installing with checkinstall so you can easily remove it later!)<\/p>\n
p.s. this irssi proxy SSL patch isn’t working<\/a>. bummer.<\/p>\n
p.p.s stunnel<\/a> works though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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