My short question for the yum mailing list is: How can I find where yum installs stuff?? ============================================================ Background (skip if you know the answer to my question) ============================================================ I'm trying to install MySQL Eventum on a Fedora Core 5 box with php 5, but it gives me this error: Configuration Error: The following problems regarding file and/or directory permissions were found: The GD extension needs to be enabled in your PHP.INI file in order for Eventum to work properly. The 'allow_call_time_pass_reference' directive needs to be enabled in your PHP.INI file in order for Eventum to work properly. ============================================================ I looked at phpinfo and found this configuration option: '--without-gd' So I guess I've got to install the GD extension..... ============================================================ Well, can I use yum to fix this? I don't know, but let me do some more installations.... ============================================================ yum install gd -- did nothing yum install gd-devel -- installed gd-devel.i386 0:2.0.33-6.2 yum install php-gd Using locate, I find what looks like the gd extension (but I'd like to know a way to get yum to tell me), and I try this, which doesn't seem to work: ./configure --with-gd /usr/lib/libgd.so . . . If configure fails try --with-jpeg-dir=<DIR> configure: error: PNG support requires ZLIB. Use --with-zlib-dir=<DIR> Yum claims that zlib is installed, I think: # yum search zlib | grep -i installed perl-Compress-Zlib.i386 1.41-1.2.2 installed zlib.i386 1.2.3-1.2.1 installed zlib-devel.i386 1.2.3-1.2.1 installed but what do I feed to configure?? Where is the zlib dir??? Locate gives me several weird possiblities.... ============================================================ Bottom line: neither 'man yum', nor 'yum --help' nor googling tells me how to find a log or other clue to where yum might have installed zlib. What's the solution? Thanks a lot! -- George Entenman, Child Care Services Assoc, Chapel Hill & Durham, NC P.S. Of course, after getting configure to find zlib, there will be another dependency to install. :-( ----------------------------------- George Entenman Database Development and Support Child Care Services Association 919-967-3272
