Do Chromium and Armagetron use SDL? I know frozen-bubble and tower toppler
do. Do those work for you? That will tell you if you have the normal libs.
By default, I don't think Mandrake installs the dev libs, which is what
you'll need for compiling...

I was able to get tuxtyping to compile with a little effort on 8.2 before I
moved to 9. Basically it involved getting the results of ./configure, going
to rpmfind.net, finding what RPM the file was in, installing the RPM and
then wash, rinse and repeat. 

Good luck!

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:darklord@;setel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:54 AM
To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: [expert] SDL problems



Apologies if this is the wrong place for this - but I posted it to the
Newbie 
list first with -0- replies:

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Well, I didn't even know it but apparently I've got some SDL problems. 
Everything from my 8.2 CD's is installed, but whenever I try to compile 
something that requires SDL, invariably I get an error that says SDL can't
be 
found. I went to libsdl.org and d/l'ed the latest RPMs' but if you try to 
install them there is a conflict. Go to remove the older version and there 
are 10,000 dependencies.

Can I go ahead anyways and remove the old SDL stuff, (and of course, all the

other stuff thats tied to it) then install the newest version of SDL, 
reinstall the software that was removed, and have it find the newer version?

Anyone have this problem before and know how to fix it? Thanks

PS One author says he has received complaints about Mandrake's SDL install 
being broke before and more than once, but its odd to me that games here
like 
Chromium and Armagetron work fine, out of the box.

Thanks everyone.

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