installing new packages on 64 bit RHE 5.4

[eee at nmt.edu]

a search of RHN for the packages came up empty.  Running a Google search,
I found some Debian IA64 packages.  Will they work?  I'm hesitant to mix
Linux versions...

Earl

> using google you should be able to track down copies of these libraries
> but
>
> if Dropbox is 32 bit, you will need libraries built to run on the 64bit
> box
> that are meant for 32 bit applications. RHN provides i386 libraries in
> their x86_64 channel
>
> unless you ask for the query format, an rpm -qa after installation only
> shows the name and version, not the architecture.
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}, %{VERSION}, %{RELEASE}, %{ARCH}\n" | grep
> rpmname
>
> or an   rpm -qi of the installed package can also show the architecture
>
>
>
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>   From:       eee at nmt.edu
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>   To:         redhat-list at redhat.com
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>   Date:       01/02/2010 02:39 PM
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>   Subject:    installing new packages on 64 bit RHE 5.4
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> I'm trying to install Dropbox on my system.  Since Dropbox does not have
> an RPM for 64 bit RHE, I'm installing from the source code. Dropbox
> requires both
> libnautilus-extension-dev
> libnotify-dev
> Neither is installed and a search in package manager comes up empty.  How
> do I find them?
>
> Earl
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