How to install Build-essential on Debian such as 12 and 11 – H2S Media
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Those who are developers or want to build some package on Linux from its source need to have essential tools for it. And installing build-essential on Debian 12 or 11 Linux it will provide a set of packages and tools for that.
Build-essential is a meta-package that is available on Debian and its based Linux systems such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint. The main task of it to provide a set of essential packages and tools required to build or compile software from its source code. These packages and tools include the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc), GNU Make, binutils, and other important development tools and libraries.
You definitely, if you are an advanced user of Linux, come across a few applications which are open source but not available for Linux systems in binary or executable format. In such cases, we need to build such software from their source code. So that after compiling we have the executable files that can be run on our system. And the build-essential package provides the necessary tools and libraries to do this.
To install the build-essential package on Debian, you can follow these steps:
On your Debian Linux whether it has a graphical user interface or command line, access the terminal because we need to run the APT package manager and commands we required to install ‘build-essential’.
It is quite important to run the system update and upgrade before planning to install packages on Debian Linux. It not only installs the available security updates but also makes sure that our APT package list is up to date.
As you have completed the previous steps, we can install the build-essential using the given Debian command. This meta-package is available through the system repositories, therefore we don’t need to add any extra repository at all.
After installing the build-essential package on your Debian-based system, download the source code of the software that you want to compile. After that build and compile it, here are the basic steps for that:
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