kimppi wrote:
Lianam, there isn't any easy way to find missing files for any OS. In MS Windows, unless there is documentation, you'd need to be inhumanly good at debugging to find out exactly what is missing. That's because there may be nothing but error messages, which many in many applications are less than informative.
In Linux, each distribution's repositories and package managers try to maintain dependencies, but if you install applications outside 'official' channels, situation is the same; documentation is needed.
That is true for Linux when you install a binary.
If you install from a tarball or git you have to do either autogen.sh or configure.
Missing libraries will be found and you get notified so you can install them.
Gerard.