On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. Are these Debian packages or third party software? If they're Debian packages, then you should just install them using apt-get or dselect or aptitude or whatever. They'll take care of dependencies just like they're supposed to. > > Is there any documentation about what libraries do what, and where > things are stored on the file system. For instance I seem to have > figured out that important binaries go in /bin, and /sbin (system > stuff). As previously mentioned, the FHS is definitive source for this. > But then there are the libraries. If I am running a program from > the local section of usr will it know to look in /usr/lib/ for > shared libraries or will it only look relative to it (../lib/)? This is all automatic, but > > I am thrilled to be using debian, but am finding that it is > difficult to track where things are supposed to go, and where they > are kept so I can direct an application if it complains. Which application is complaining? If it's from Debian and you installed using apt or dselect or whatever, then that's a bug. If it's third party software, then they should tell you exactly which libraries they want. Finding the libraries (if they're installed in 'standardish' places, like /usr/local/lib) should be automatic. -rob
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