This document serves to outline some of the commonly required packages in Ubuntu (possibly Debian but the package names may or may not be different) to build from source. It may not have everything, and it might be to much so good luck!

SUPPORT - Compilers:
 apt-get install gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gcc gcc-2.95 \
    gcc-3.2 gcc-3.2-base make makedev g++ g++-2.95 g++-3.3 g++-3.4 g++-4.0 libc5 \
    libc5-altdev libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg libc6-i686 libc6-prof
 
SUPPORT - Libraries:
 apt-get install libcario1 libcario1-dev libfontconfig1 libpng12-0 libtiff4 libungif4g libx11-6 \
    zlib1g libatk1.0-0 pkg-config libicu28 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libldap2 libneon24 libssl0.9.7 \
    libsvn0 libxml2 zlib1g db4.2-util libapr0 lib libxml2 libxml2-dev
    
SUPPORT - Tools:
 apt-get install subversion subversion-tools patch patchutils
 
GLIB:
 apt-get install libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dbg libglib1.2-dev libglib2.0-0 \
    libglib2.0-0-dbg libglib2.0-data libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0 libglibmm-2.4-1 \
    libglibmm-2.4-dev lib
    
DBUS:
 apt-get install dbus-1 dbus-1-dev dbus-1-utils dbus-glib-1 dbus-glib-1-dev
 
GTKEMBEDMOZ:
 apt-get install mozilla mozilla-firefox mozilla-dev mozilla-firefox-dev

RSVG:
 apt-get install librsvg2-2 librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common librsvg2-dev
 
ART:
 apt-get install libart2 libart-2.0-2 libart-2.0-dev libart-dev 
 
GNOME & GNOME DB:
 apt-get install libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common \
    libgnome2-dev libgnome32 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-dev \
    libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomedb2-3 libgnomedb2-common \
    libgnomedb2-dbg libgnomedb2-dev libgnome-dev libgnome-desktop-2 \
    libgnome-desktop-dev libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-0-dbg \
    libgnomeui32 libgnomeui-common libgnomeui-dev libgnomeuimm2.0-1 \
    libgnomeuimm2.0-dev gnome-icon-theme
    
GNOME-VFS:
 apt-get install libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-0-dbg libgnomevfs2-common
    libgnomevfs2-dev libgnomevfs-dev libgnomevfs-common libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-1 \
    libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-dev
  
GSF:
 apt-get install libgsf-gnome-1 libgsf-gnome-1-dev libgsf-gnome-1-dbg
  
GTKHTML:
 apt-get install gtkhtml3.0 gtkhtml3.2 gtkhtml3.6 libgtkhtml3.0-4 libgtkhtml3.0-dev \
    libgtkhtml3.2-11 libgtkhtml3.2-dev libgtkhtml3.6-15 libgtkhtml3.6-dev \
    libgtkhtml-data libgtkhtml-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev
  
VTE:
 apt-get install libvte4 libvte-common libvte-dev

GCONF: 
 apt-get install gconf gconf2 gconf-editor libgconf11 libgconf2-4 libgconf2-dev \
    libconf-dev 

GTK:
 apt-get install gtk2.0-examples gtk-doc-tools libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common \
    libgtk2.0-dev libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-0-dbg libgtkmm2.0-1c102 libgtkmm2.0-dev \
    libgtkmm-2.4-1 libgtkmm-2.4-dev

GTKSOURCEVIEW:
 apt-get install libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview-dev
 
GDA:
 apt-get install libgda2-common libgda2-dev libgda2-dbg libgda2-1
 
GLADE:
 apt-get install glade-common-2 glade-gnome-2 libglade0 libglade0-dev \
    libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libglade-gnome0 libglade-gnome0-dev \
    libglademm2.0-1c102 libglademm2.0-dev libglademm-2.4-1 libglademm-2.4-dev