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Have you ever received an error while compiling a program saying it needs some “.h”  file you don’t have on the server ?

You can install the program auto-apt  and it will ask you to install packages if they’re needed:

Syntax:

# auto-apt run command

Where `command’ is the command to be executed that may need some unavailable file.

For example:

# auto-apt run ./configure

It will then ask to install the needed packages and call apt-get automatically. If you’re running X, a graphical interface will replace the default text interface.

auto-apt keeps databases which need to be kept up-to-date in order for it to be effective. This is achieved by calling the commands auto-apt update, auto-apt updatedb and auto-apt update-local.