[SLL] How do you find out what package a library come in

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006, Ariz Jacinto wrote:
>hi,
>
>if i understand your question correctly, you can check the libraries
>_linked_ to the other existing library (somelibname.so) by running
>this command:
>
>shell> ldd ./somelibname.so
>
>       libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7b50000)
>       libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b3f000)
>       libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb79c5000)
>       /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

In this case, I think he was trying to build software that was
looking for libraries that weren't installed on the system.

FWIW, I generated an index file for SuSE 10.1 as I described in
my previous post, and didn't find an libdpstk.so files in any of
the packages.  If anybody wants this file, I have it on our site
(I would use zgrep on it though because the compression was
around 90% on this sucker :-).

	ftp://ftp.celestial.com/tmp/suse101rpmindex.gz

One of the issues I've had with SuSE's boxed sets that didn't
have the word ``Professional'' in their title is that they often
left out critical development libraries in their RPMS.  In one
case I the PAM development libraries weren't in any of the binary
packages, but could be built from the Source SRPMS.

In this case, a SuSE 9.3 Professional system I have here includes the
libdpstk libraries in the xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-30 RPM package, but it's not
in xorg-x11-devel-6.9.0-48 on a SuSE 10.1 system here.

I didn't find any SRPMS on the SuSE 10.1 dvd that came with the
boxed set, and don't have time now to search through the 6 CDs
that came with it.

Bill
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