apt-get build-dep

http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid-11581508-id-62524.html

build-dep参数是指建立某个要编译软件的环境，比如现在要手工编译pidgin，那如果想让编译正常通过，你可以事先把编译过程中需要用到的软件包先配置好。

jim@jhztb:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep pidgin
正在读取软件包列表... 完成
正在分析软件包的依赖关系树      
正在读取状态信息... 完成      
下列【新】软件包将被安装：
  autotools-dev cdbs check debhelper doxygen gettext html2text intltool-debian
  libatk1.0-dev libaudiofile-dev libavahi-client-dev libavahi-common-dev
  libavahi-glib-dev libbonobo2-dev libcairo2-dev libcamel1.2-dev
  libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libdbus-1-dev
  libdbus-glib-1-dev libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdirectfb-dev
  libdirectfb-extra libebook1.2-dev libedata-book1.2-dev libedataserver1.2-dev
  libenchant-dev libesd0-dev libexpat1-dev libfile-remove-perl
  libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libgadu-dev libgadu3 libgconf2-dev
  libgcrypt11-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libgnutls-dev
  libgpg-error-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkspell-dev
  libgtkspell0 libhesiod0 libice-dev libidl-dev libio-compress-base-perl
  libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-stringy-perl libjpeg62-dev libltdl3
  libltdl3-dev libmail-box-perl libmail-sendmail-perl libmailtools-perl
  libmeanwhile-dev libmeanwhile1 libmime-types-perl libmpeg3-1 libmpeg3-dev
  libncursesw5-dev libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev libobject-realize-later-perl
  liborbit2-dev libpango1.0-dev libperl-dev libperl5.10 libpng12-dev
  libpopt-dev libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules libselinux1-dev libsepol1-dev
  libsilc-1.1-2 libsilc-1.1-2-dev libsm-dev libsqlite3-dev
  libstartup-notification0-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl libsysfs-dev
  libtasn1-3-dev libtool libuser-identity-perl libxcb-render-util0-dev
  libxcb-render0-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev
  libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev
  libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxss-dev libxt-dev libzephyr-dev libzephyr3
  orbit2 po-debconf tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev x11proto-composite-dev
  x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev
  x11proto-xinerama-dev
共升级了 0 个软件包，新安装了 113 个软件包，要卸载 0 个软件包，有 1 个软件未被升级。
需要下载 35.0MB 的软件包。
解压缩后会消耗掉 138MB 的额外空间。
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是不是很用呢？