'Twas brillig, and Peng Yu at 07/09/09 22:04 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Amit Pundir<pundira...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Colin Guthrie<gm...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: >>> 'Twas brillig, and Peng Yu at 07/09/09 15:49 did gyre and gimble: >>>> Is there a way so that I can search what package is missing by >>>> specifying a missing file without asking in the mailing list? >>> Depends on your distro... in RH yum search may do it (not sure), in >>> Mandriva urpmf does this. >>> >> In Ubuntu you can try "apt-file search <filename>" it will list out >> the available packages which contains that file. >> >> In your case: >> $ apt-file search X11/extensions/Print.h >> x11proto-print-dev: /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h >> >> So install: >> $ sudo apt-get install x11proto-print-dev > > I don't have root permission in my system.
That shouldn't stop you searching via the package system (in most cases) which in turn would point you to the source file. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg