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

[Randyl Britten]

On 8/31/06, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> 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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FWIW libdpstk is in SUSE 10.0 at:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    15 2005-11-26 13:22 /usr/X11R6/lib64/libdpstk.so
-> libdpstk.so.1.0
...
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 33888 2005-09-12 15:55
/usr/X11R6/lib64/libdpstk.so.1.0

yeah, that's on an Athlon-64. But it's also on Fedora Core 5 that had a
complete upgrade a couple months ago:
l
rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    15 Dec  4  2005 /usr/X11R6/lib/libdpstk.so ->
libdpstk.so.1.0
...
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 28944 May 13  2005 /usr/X11R6/lib/libdpstk.so.1.0

Anyway, check a SUSE 10.0 box if you can. libdpstk is not listed in the
package index for some reason, but is part of X before 10.1 when it
evidently became deprecated.

Randyl
Linux -- It's what UNIX coulda woulda shoulda been.