I remember when I first tried to compile gearmand and figuring out what packages needed to be installed was annoyingly not documented, so I'm sympathetic, but I feel the Dockerfiles in PR #327 is a better solution to this problem, overall. The Dockerfile for Ubuntu in that PR contains a packages list that is more complete, and there are Dockerfiles for other Linux distributions as well.

Also, why libboost1.71-all-dev and not libboost-all-dev? Did they make some kind of incompatible change that we're not aware of?

Also, why libboost1.71-all-dev and not libboost-all-dev? Did they make some kind of incompatible change that we're not aware of?

Not at all, I just didn't know the generic name. I'm all in favour of using the better information that is stored in the docker file, but since I'm totally not going to use docker, and those only exist in PR form, I have added the extra repos and replaced the specific boost reference. Dealers choice as to whether it's worth putting in the README. libtokyocabinet-dev and tcsh are not strictly build requirements, but I left them in.

OK, this is looking better. Thanks. Please remove tcsh and wget from the list. Wget is used to download the source code when building the Docker image, but it's not required when building from source when you already have the source code. And tcsh is not required to build either. I should probably remove it from the Dockerfiles. I just included it in my Docker images because I'm (very) old school and prefer it as my shell. 😄

Also, I think maybe you should just replace satisfied on Ubuntu 20.04 with satisfied on Ubuntu because I'm pretty sure that list is the same for any version of Ubuntu going back to 16 at least and it'll probably (hopefully) work with future versions of Ubuntu, too.

@esabol

Ubuntu 20.04 changed to Ubuntu and tcsh and wget removed from packages.

@SpamapS

With respect, moving the information to a seperate file would not be adventageous at this point. Also, people using debian or pretty much any other packaging system can derive the needed packages from that list.