Ubuntu – How to install ALL development libraries

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I want to preinstall all the libraries one could ever need onto a system so someone building something would always have the libraries available.

Like in a computer lab where users are not root.

I want to do something like apt-get install lib* but I don't think that will be a good idea. Is there a package like most-libs-used?

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Run this:

apt-cache search dev|grep "\-dev"|cut -d' ' -f1|sort > available-devs.txt

It will create the file available-devs.txt with a list of all available -dev packges in the archive (and within any PPAs or other archives you have added). You can then go and install them all. You can't install them all at the same time, as there are more package names than allowable program arguments in a POSIX system, so you'll have to install some bit by bit. Also, if you really want to install all of them, I hope you have a very large storage system for your main OS partition.

Also, that only grabs the ones for the arch you're currently on, I think. To install both i386 and x86_64 versions on a 64-bit Ubuntu install, you'd need even more space, and have to install a lot more of the same, with :i386 appended to the package name. But not all libraries in the archive are set up for MultiArch support yet.

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Ubuntu – Building a 32-bit app in 64-bit Ubuntu

LDFLAGS should include -m32 as well. Following should work:

export LDFLAGS='-m32 -L/usr/lib32'

In fact, you can drop -L/usr/lib32 part, since this is a default directory for 32bit libs, and your system is aware about that.

Basically, the simplest way to build 32bit application on 64bit machine is:

export CFLAGS='-m32'
export CXXFLAGS='-m32'
export LDFLAGS='-m32'
make

..or feed those variables to configure script if you're using autotools.

UPDATE:

Seems like you are not really familiar about the differences in linking with static and dynamic libraries. I'll try to be as minimal as possible:

Both static and dynamic development libraries have the same file extension .a
If you have installed both static and dynamic versions of the same library, one of them might have additional postfix, like libname.a for dynamic and libname_s.a for static version.
Sure, static and dynamic library versions differs in size. Static version is heavier.
If you link with static library - your application has no dependencies. If you link with dynamic library, it will rely on .so runtime library that should be present in your system.

Please note, we are not talking about advanced tricks here, like explicit loading of DSO's using the dlopen()/dlsym() API.

Ubuntu – How to install all the boost development libraries

Package libboost-all-dev installs all the development libraries. Excerpt of the package description:

This metapackage provides the complete Boost development environment, including all separately-packaged libraries.

Install it with:

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

If it fails to locate the package, make sure the universe repository is enabled.

Headers are located in /usr/include/boost and libraries in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu.

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