Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > And yes, "ldd /path/to/the-program" would also be useful information. my guess is that the OP did not know that they needed to install the build-depends for this package and then tried to build it. hopefully i'm wrong, but if i'm not a simple answer is to install the build-depends for the package. they may need to add a deb-src line to their /etc/apt/sources.list before doing that install. songbird