Re: installing packages

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On Mon, 31 May 2004, Kent Emia wrote:

> 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?

Exactly. If you never or rarely compile anything yourself you wont be 
needing any -devel packages. And if you start building stuff you'll notice 
the need for relevant -devel packages sooner than later :)

	- Panu -



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