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Reputation: 303

Trouble installing packages in Debian for mit-scheme-10.1.10, Header file not found

Here's the error for the mcrypt module

checking mcrypt.h usability... no
checking mcrypt.h presence... no
checking for mcrypt.h ... no
configure: error: Header file<mcrypt.h> not found.

Same error for a package called gdbm.

I'm new to Linux and am running Debian 10.2.0-amd64 with Oracle VirtualBox. I'm trying to install Scheme to use with Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I know that a (.h) file is a header file and that's about it. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 108

Answers (2)

Flux
Flux

Reputation: 10930

Since you are running Debian 10 (Buster), you can install MIT Scheme from the official Debian repositories instead of compiling it on your own:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mit-scheme

MIT Scheme package in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/buster/mit-scheme.

If you really want to compile from source:

Here's the list of package dependencies that must be installed when building:

m4, autotools-dev, libssl-dev, libncurses5-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, libltdl-dev

And here are some optional packages that are needed for specific purposes like crypto and databases:

libmhash-dev, libmcrypt-dev, libgdbm-dev, libpq-dev, libdb-dev

Source: Chris Hanson on the mit-scheme-devel mailing list.

Upvotes: 1

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Reputation: 15229

I currently don't have access to any debian machines, but given Ubuntu's similarities try:

apt-get install libmcrypt-dev libgdbm-dev

Upvotes: 3

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