Some tips for Linux (Ubuntu LTS)

[Search for which packages contain a file through the Apt-file tool]

The process of compiling the source code often encountered missing a necessary file, but do not know which package the file from, you can try to use the apt-file tool to search;

The apt-file tool is not installed by default, it needs to be installed, and then if you want to know where glut.h This file is from, you can use the following command:

Apt-file Search Glut.h

If there are no surprises, you should list a lot of packages that contain glut.h files, and we can narrow the search by adding the path to the file:

Apt-file Search Gl/glut.h

The results of this search are significantly less, note that the Linux system is case-sensitive, if written gl/glut.h will be nothing to search;

Some tips for Linux (Ubuntu LTS)