Hint: Finding packages with needed files
Let me comment on two different posts in one:
--- Cameron Matheson <matheson@mail1.facile.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4?
--- Ron Farrer <rbf@farrer.net> wrote:
> jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory
> jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [atom.o] Error 1
>
> I haven't figured out what package these might be in if any.
There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called
Contents-i386.gz in the dists/<your dist> directory. It lists every single
file with the package that contains it.
So a 'zgrep "file I need" Contents-i386.gz' gives you the package(s) you have
to install.
Michel
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