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Josh
Asked: 2012-04-14 12:42:09 +0800 CST

What does libgs10-dev relate to?

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As part of an installation process I am instructed to install libgs10-dev, however I cannot find any reference to this package outside of this installation guide ("Hacking the Kinect", Apress, 2012).

Firstly, what is this package?

Secondly, how can I install this package (apt-get install does not seem to find it)?

package-management compiling

3 Answers

  1. This was a typo in the instructions. It should be libgsl0-dev. They erroneously substituted a numeric one for the second letter "l"

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  2. Best Answer

    Packages called libSOMETHING-dev (or sometimes ANYTHING-dev) are development packages, which you need to compile programs from source when the program uses the libSOMETHING library. Occasionally the package name itself contains a version number, to allow the simultaneous installation of several version.

    Ubuntu doesn't have a libgs10-dev package, but it has libgs-dev. Install that. The same goes for any other package with a version number in its name — try removing or changing the number.

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  3. libgs relates to scientific computing libraries, which the RGBD demo in the book requires to run computer vision and matrix computations. Basically a linear algebra library.

    I have the book as well and it seems libgs10 is a typo - it should be libgsl0 (l for lion, not 1). I simply corrected the typo and it installed beautifully.

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