How to find missing libraries when compiling apps

[Peter Cague]

Hi

>From this link:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/

I got this:

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gdk&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=

by taking off the -2.0 and jus using gdk

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:39, CB wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 02:10 -0500, Michael wrote:
> > One of the best recorces to find dependencies is rpmfind.net if you
> > cant find them through your update manager.  The package it said was
> > needed is "gdk-pixbuf"  You can get it from this mirror in a source
> > rpm and just use rpmbuild --rebuild file.rpm.src to build it for your
> > system.
> > 
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
> 
> 
> I realise this may sound none-too-bright, but I'll risk that and ask
> anyway: how do you get from the message 'No package 'gdk-2.0' found' to
> knowing that "gdk-pixbuf" is what's needed? Is it just that you already
> knew this or is there a method of finding what packages a given library
> is in?
> 
> Also, does anyone know where I might read about the whole context around
> libraries on linux (stuff like: standard locations, how to find out if a
> given library/version is installed, commandline tools related to
> libraries etc).