On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:36:45 +1000, 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? The latter, unfortunately. Experience is the key here. 'gdk-2.0' refers to a pkgconfig template file: $ rpm --redhatprovides /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gdk-2.0.pc gtk2-devel-2.4.0-1 -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 loadavg: 2.10 1.84 1.58
