Sherwin Daganato wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:59:47PM +0800, william villanueva wrote:
>> Sherwin Daganato wrote:
>>>
>>> urpm can find it for you.
>>
>> you mean urpmi, don't you?
>
> No.
>
>>> Issue 'urpmi perl.h' as root to install the rpm that provides it.
>>
>> You mean that just running urpmi and it will find the package that
>> has this?  If so, then I'm missing something in my installation.  I
>> just checked man urpmi and there's no mention about that.
>
> My copy of urpmi(8) says :
>
> SYNOPSIS
> urpmi [options] [package_names | rpm_files...]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> urpmi authorizes well-known rpms (or rpm files) to be installed
> including all their depen�dencies.
>
>
> Read _rpm_files_.
>
> BTW, did you know that 'urpmf' can find which package provides
> 'perl.h'?
>
> $ urpmf '\bperl\.h\b'
> perl-devel:/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/CORE/perl.h


I just checked again, and I can't find mention of   "urpm"  as you
initially pointed.    But this last one, urpmf does the trick.
Thanks!

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God bless.

William Villanueva
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