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I am a pretty good programmer and I have been working with Linux for 10+ years, but sometimes when trying to build programs from source I hit a brick wall. The current problem occurs when trying to build vlc, it claims that 

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvorbisdec

This happens quite frequently. The first thing I do is try

sudo apt-get install vorbisdec

But that doesn't always [ever] work. Next I try googling it, but 99 times out of a hundred I get something like this

  • vorbisdec...did you mean vorbisenc

I had a very similar problem tyring to install libgoom2. It doesn't help that sometimes the binaries you need (ie. goom) are in a preppended and appended file name (ie. xmms-libgoom2-dev)

Could someone fill in the missing step (s) with respect to how to properly go about installing programs from source:

  1. `sudo apt-get install
  2. ???
  3. give up installing
puk
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Most of libraries requested by ./configure can be installed with

sudo apt-get install lib[library name]-dev

For example, vorbisdec is available in libvorbis-dev package. Sometimes you have to specify version number, like libxcb-composite0-dev, liblua5.2-dev, or if you don't know version number libxcb-composite*-dev. If apt-get still can't find requried packages, you have to compile them from source, and then run

sudo ldconfig

EDIT: You can also use Tab button to list packages starting with libvorbis:

$ sudo apt-get install libvorbis[Tab]
libvorbis              libvorbisfile3         libvorbis-ocaml
libvorbis0a            libvorbisfile-ruby     libvorbis-ocaml-dev
libvorbis-dbg          libvorbisfile-ruby1.8  libvorbisspi-java
libvorbis-dev          libvorbisidec1         
libvorbisenc2          libvorbisidec-dev

ANOTHER EDIT: There is more :D

$ apt-cache search vorbis
libshout3 - MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming library
libshout3-dev - MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming library (development)
libtag1-dev - audio meta-data library - development files
libtag1-doc - audio meta-data library - API documentation
libtag1-vanilla - audio meta-data library - vanilla flavour
libtag1c2a - audio meta-data library
libtagc0 - audio meta-data library - C bindings
[...]
m132
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You can solve with

sudo apt-get install libvorbis-dev
derogab
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