[clug] Package Installation

[Matt Howe]

Brad Hards wrote:

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>On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 23:12 pm, Matt Howe wrote:
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>>[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]$
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>Do you have a package like libgii-devel? Perhaps libgii0-devel? You need to
>install those. I don't have libgii in my setup, but here is an equivalent example
>of the two different rpm types. Baiscally you need the base package to 
>run applications, but you need the -devel package to build them.
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>[bradh at rachel RPMS]$ rpm -qilp zlib1-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm zlib1-devel-1.1.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
>Name        : zlib1                        Relocations: (not relocateable)
>Version     : 1.1.4                             Vendor: MandrakeSoft
>Release     : 3mdk                          Build Date: Fri 07 Jun 2002 11:33:43 PM EST
>Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com
>Group       : System/Libraries              Source RPM: zlib-1.1.4-3mdk.src.rpm
>Size        : 64461                            License: BSD
>Packager    : Guillaume Cottenceau <gc at mandrakesoft.com>
>URL         : http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
>Summary     : The zlib compression and decompression library
>Description :
>The zlib compression library provides in-memory compression and
>decompression functions, including integrity checks of the uncompressed
>data.  This version of the library supports only one compression method
>(deflation), but other algorithms may be added later, which will have
>the same stream interface.  The zlib library is used by many different
>system programs.
>/lib/libz.so.1
>/lib/libz.so.1.1.4
>/usr/lib/libz.so.1.1.4
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-1.1.4
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-1.1.4/README
>Name        : zlib1-devel                  Relocations: (not relocateable)
>Version     : 1.1.4                             Vendor: MandrakeSoft
>Release     : 3mdk                          Build Date: Fri 07 Jun 2002 11:33:43 PM EST
>Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com
>Group       : Development/C                 Source RPM: zlib-1.1.4-3mdk.src.rpm
>Size        : 168875                           License: BSD
>Packager    : Guillaume Cottenceau <gc at mandrakesoft.com>
>URL         : http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
>Summary     : Header files and libraries for developing apps which will use zlib
>Description :
>The zlib-devel package contains the header files and libraries needed
>to develop programs that use the zlib compression and decompression
>library.
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>Install the zlib-devel package if you want to develop applications that
>will use the zlib library.
>/usr/include/zconf.h
>/usr/include/zlib.h
>/usr/include/zutil.h
>/usr/lib/libz.a
>/usr/lib/libz.so
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-devel-1.1.4
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-devel-1.1.4/ChangeLog
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-devel-1.1.4/README
>/usr/share/doc/zlib1-devel-1.1.4/algorithm.txt
>/usr/share/man/man3/zlib.3.bz2
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cheers, i worked out the problem finally. It was the -devel packages 
that needed tobe installed. I did not know that these needed to be 
installed but i dare say it will come in handy in the future.

Thank again

Matt