Libguestfs - Jul 2016 - Re: Help

Thanks a lot. One more thing if I may... Will I just download and
install the packages from the http://packages.ubuntu.com ?

On 7/28/16, Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday, 28 July 2016 16:27:24 CEST M.H. Hasan Bhuiyan wrote:
>> I am a newbie in coding. I am using ubuntu 14.04 in my machine and
>> installed libguestfs by the following command:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install libguestfs-tools
>>
>> I get to run guestfish properly from terminal. But as it happens I
>> want to write a program in C++ and i want to include the guestfs.h
>> file in the program. I have tried and searched many options but have
>> not found any. Is there something I am doing wrong? Can you please
>> help me getting the file. If you can show me a way then it would be
>> great cause I have been trying for three days in a row.
>
> libguestfs-tools contains just the command line utilities provided by
> libguestfs.  In a distribution like Ubuntu, the headers for developing
> with a library are usually shipped in development packaged named
> <library>-dev.  In the case of libguestfs on Ubuntu, the right
package
> is libguestfs-dev -- you can also check the online resource
> http://packages.ubuntu.com which helps to find packages available in
> Ubuntu, and also to locate files shipped.
>
> --
> Pino Toscano

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 17:19:21 CEST M.H. Hasan Bhuiyan
wrote:
> Thanks a lot. One more thing if I may... Will I just download and
> install the packages from the http://packages.ubuntu.com ?
Better use the package management tools provided in Ubuntu -- apt-get
when in terminal, or also the graphical applications provided with the
desktop environment (if any).
They will do the right job, downloading the packages you want to install
and also their dependencies, and making sure everything is installed
correctly.

-- 
Pino Toscano

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

On Jul 28, 2016 5:28 PM, "Pino Toscano" <ptoscano@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 July 2016 17:19:21 CEST M.H. Hasan Bhuiyan wrote:
> > Thanks a lot. One more thing if I may... Will I just download and
> > install the packages from the http://packages.ubuntu.com ?
>
> Better use the package management tools provided in Ubuntu -- apt-get
> when in terminal, or also the graphical applications provided with the
> desktop environment (if any).
> They will do the right job, downloading the packages you want to install
> and also their dependencies, and making sure everything is installed
> correctly.
>
> --
> Pino Toscano