installing packages

Kent Emia kent-cdr at greendot.com.ph
Mon May 31 04:56:21 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 10:35, Christopher Stone wrote:
> devel packages are used mainly when you compile your own applications.
>  Every once in a while you will find something that doesn't have an
> rpm available and you will need to compile the source code.  So if for
> example you find some new apt utility that no one has made an rpm for
> and you want to compile it, you may find that it requires the
> apt-devel rpm installed in order to compile.  In general though, you
> will probably never need apt-devel.

so in general example if i downloaded a 

mplayer-xxxxx and so i don't need an mplayer-devel ... am i right?


> 
> On Mon, 31 May 2004 09:47:42 +0800, Kent Emia <kent-cdr at greendot.com.ph> wrote:
> > 
> > in installing packages do i have to really install these two?
> > 
> > apt-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
> > apt-devel-0.5.15cnc6-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
> > 
> > what does 'devel' have to do in every package?
> > 
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