On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:39:24 +0100 "Srdjan Todorovic" todorovic.s@googlemail.com allegedly wrote:
Is that no silly-er than me illustrating my point by saying that http://packages.slackware.it/search.php?v=current&t=1&q=gstreamer has no specific development package of its own, given that we're now comparing different distros (and package management schemes)?
Sorry, but no I don't agree. The original question was about the Chris's problems with compiling gnome-alarm when the configure script complained about the (apparent absence) of gstreamer. Chris said he had it installed (as indeed he had). I suggested that he install the development package. Chris responded that there was no dev package for gstreamer and used a yum listing as evidence. Noting that this is distro specific, I responded with an aptitude listing (equally distro specific) to show that dev packages do exist.
People seem to have missed the irony, but hey, never mind.
A simple search on rpmfind or rpmbone will lead to the development packages.
Of course, that may not solve Chris's problem. In my experience, rpm is a crap package manager which does not handle dependencies at all well.
Cheers
Mick
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