[clug] Package Installation

[Nathan Robertson]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 11:12  PM, Matt Howe wrote:

> Simon Burton wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:47:18 +1000
>> Matt Howe <mdhowe at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> checking for ggiInit in -lggi... no
>>> *** Error! needs LibGGI to compile ***
>>> please download and install LibGGI and LibGII from
>>> ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi/ggi/current/ and try again
>>> [root at purple koth-0.8.0]# urpmi libggi
>>> Everything already installed
>>> [root at purple koth-0.8.0]# urpmi libgii
>>> Everything already installed
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Matt Howe
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> what distribution is this?
>> on RH i use things like "rpm -qa|grep ggi" alot
>> and often go to fr2.rpmfind.net to find package names etc. etc.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>>
>>
> Ok, i'm using Mandrake 9.1. I tried the grep command and it tells me 
> that its installed and i have installed the packages with urpmi, but 
> it just can't seem to find them anywhere????
>
> Matt
>
> [matt at purple matt]$ rpm -qa|grep libggi
> libggi-2.0.2-2mdk
> libggi2-2.0.2-2mdk
> [matt at purple matt]$ rpm -qa|grep libgii
> libgii-0.8.2-3mdk
> libgii0-0.8.2-3mdk
> [matt at purple matt]$

Use:
$ rpm -ql <pkgname>

with the version number stripped from the package. As in:
$ rpm -ql libggi

The rpm man page is one of the best written I've seen. It takes half an 
hour to read, is very clear, and taking the time has paid dividends for 
me. :-)

Regards,
Nathan.

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Nathan Robertson
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