How to find missing libraries when compiling apps

Peter Cague kiwi-hawk at paradise.net.nz
Tue Sep 28 07:25:40 UTC 2004


theres maybe a command line but I don't know it I just search at
http://www.rpmfind.net and it give me a list

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:36, CB wrote:
> How do you go about discovering what rpm to install to add a required
> library when trying to compile an application?
> 
> Current example: I want to try out Tomboy
> ( http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy ). ./configure gives me the
> following error: 
> 
> 	No package 'gdk-2.0' found
> 
> I've tried doing a 'yum search' and have tried rather randomly
> installing a couple of rpm's with the string 'gdk' in them, but that
> seems a pretty dumb approach. Is there a better one, or do you just have
> to read and comprehend the code to know what to install?
> 




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