Which package contains the C standard library?

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This should be available in the glibc package Though most all the packages essential to development and code-building can be found in build-essential

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The package name is libc6, if you are trying to build a C app then you will want to install the build-essential package which brings the development packages.

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It's libc6 / libc6-dev. For cross compilation for 64 bit / 32 bit systems, you can install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev-amd64 or *i386 repsectively.

The -dev packages are the ones that contain /usr/include/stdlib.h.

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In general, you can find which package a file belongs to using the command:

dpkg-query -S /path/to/file

In this case, this does depend on you first knowing which file is the C standard library: /lib/libc6.so.6

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