----- Original Message ----- From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 07:49 Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for?
> Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 18:16 > > Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for? > > > > > > > >>On Monday 26 Jan 2004 9:50 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >> > >>>----- Original Message ----- > >>>From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 13:01 > >>>Subject: Re: [newbie] What is CD3 for? > >>> > >>> > >>>>On Sunday 25 Jan 2004 10:13 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>At 03:34 PM 1/25/04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >> > >>Development libraries are only used when you're compiling from source, > >>and 99% of the time you're aware when you're doing that. (Installing > >>the Nvidea driver springs to mind as a counter-example.) > >> > >> > > > > Which brings to mind another question. If the directories are on cd how > > will I be able to compile SRPMS or tarballs? Is this dependency hell? > > If you have all three CDs (or an Internet source set up) you should have > few problems. Compiling source from tarballs won't automatically > install the dependencies like urpmi-ing a binary RPM does, but the error > messages will tell you what's missing, and it's usually standard stuff > that you can then urpmi. Occasionally you'll have to search for an > obscure library, but assuming you've already installed the standard > stuff (gcc etc.) 90% of tarballs just need the usual > > configure > make > make install > > Sir Robin > > Robin Turner > IDMYO > Bilkent Univeritesi > Ankara 06533 > Turkey Thank you for your input it helps. Regards; Hoyt
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