Nick Smith wrote: >> To build against squid, you should only need the squid-devel package. >> If you really do need srpms, you can get them on any centos mirror, >> but they aren't available via yum. >> > how do i get the squid-devel package? yum seach squid-devel comes up There probably is no squid-devel. Whoever wrote the spec file for the RPM decides how to partition out the installable files generated by building the project. If the project does not seem to create libraries or include header files that other projects will want to touch, no -devel RPM is generated by the specfile. It seems what you need is the SRPM: have a look in here: http://mirror.linux.duke.edu/pub/centos/4.3/os/SRPMS/ -Andy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4492 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060516/eceda6f4/smime.bin