One of the best recorces to find dependencies is rpmfind.net if you cant find them through your update manager. The package it said was needed is "gdk-pixbuf" You can get it from this mirror in a source rpm and just use rpmbuild --rebuild file.rpm.src to build it for your system. http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:36:45 +1000, CB <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
