On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:35, Christopher Stone wrote: > devel packages are used mainly when you compile your own applications. > Every once in a while you will find something that doesn't have an > rpm available and you will need to compile the source code. So if for > example you find some new apt utility that no one has made an rpm for > and you want to compile it, you may find that it requires the > apt-devel rpm installed in order to compile. In general though, you > will probably never need apt-devel. so in general example if i downloaded a mplayer-xxxxx and so i don't need an mplayer-devel ... am i right? > > On Mon, 31 May 2004 09:47:42 +0800, Kent Emia <kent-cdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > in installing packages do i have to really install these two? > > > > apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm > > apt-devel-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm > > > > what does 'devel' have to do in every package? > > > > ---- > > kent > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >
