2015-12-05 Update
st has been added to the debian repos and can now be installed with apt-get install stterm.
Background
st is not available as a binary (in debian sid). My guess for the reason for this, is because you need to compile st to to make any configuration changes.
Details
The README for compiling st mentions needing the Xlib header files as a prerequisite to build, this was not the case on debian (sid). To get a clean compile I needed the following packages:
- libx11-dev: Xlib header files
- libxft-dev: freetype-based font drawing
- libxext-dev: X11 miscellaneous extensions
After installing the above, I was able to make, clean, and install per the README.
