At 10:01 PM 5/1/02, you wrote: >On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Relson wrote: > > > >The above lines indicated a missing header file ( X11/xpm.h ). > > >In this case I knew that the file was part of libxpm so just hunted > > >through the disks with ' ls *xpm*devel* ' until I found a match. > > >If you're not sure which package contains the file you can also try > > >searching on rpmfind.net for the missing file. > > > > Even simpler let the rpm system, specifically urpmf tell you :-). > > > > When I ran "urpmf xpm.h", it listed: > > > > libxpm4-devel:/usr/X11R6/include/X11/xpm.h > > > > plus some extras, like xpm/help.xpm, > > >Hey now! I learned something new today! > >I had been building a database of dependencies by querying with >--provides and dropping the results into a filelist. It worked, but >wasn't as straightforward as the above. How longhas urpmf existed?
I learned about it from one of the Mandrake mailing lists, but don't recall which one. I think I was running Mandrake 8.1. Checking at rpmfind.net, it appears that the urpmi package is a Mandrake original dating back to November 1999.
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