What package I should install for 'pcre-devel'? [closed]

Question

I need to install the pcre-devel package to compile lighttpd on Ubuntu:

configure: error: pcre-config not found, install the pcre-devel package or build with --without-pcre

Can you please tell me how to do that?

Answer 1

Try using apt-cache search, e.g.,

apt-cache search pcre 

For me this turns up a lot so I grep for the keyword dev.

This turns up libpcre3-dev and libpcre++-dev.

lighttpd will use one of those no doubt.

So if your search shows libpcre3-dev, you can install using:
sudo apt install libpcre3-dev

However, is there any reason you're compiling lighttpd yourself?
Why not install using apt?
Including lighttpd-dev, lighttpd-doc and some related modules.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu 9.10:

$ apt-cache search pcre | grep -- -dev libpcre3-dev - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - development files libghc6-pcre-light-dev - Haskell library for Perl 5-compatible regular expressions libghc6-regex-base-dev - GHC 6 library providing an API for regular expressions libpcre++-dev - C++ wrapper class for pcre (development) libpcre-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression) $  

That would be libpcre3-dev for C, or libpcre++-dev for C++.

By the same token, the lighthttpd already exists as well:

$ apt-cache search lighttpd collectd - statistics collection and monitoring daemon lighttpd - A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint lighttpd-dev - Development files for lighttpd lighttpd-doc - Documentation for lighttpd lighttpd-mod-cml - Cache meta language module for lighttpd lighttpd-mod-magnet - Control the request handling module for lighttpd lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost - MySQL-based virtual host configuration for lighttpd lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl - Anti-deep-linking module for lighttpd lighttpd-mod-webdav - WebDAV module for lighttpd mongrel-cluster - Mongrel plugin to manage a cluster of Mongrel servers mono-fastcgi-server - ASP.NET backend for FastCGI webservers - default version mono-fastcgi-server1 - ASP.NET 1.1 backend for FastCGI webservers mono-fastcgi-server2 - ASP.NET 2.0 backend for FastCGI webservers $