On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:16:47AM -0800, nate enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
>
> > Is 'yum provides foo' not good enough?
>
>
> Not really, no. Say your building a package like the OP was,
> and you figure out you need the library libkabc_dir.so.1,
> now if your really into the development side of things you
> may be able to take a stab at what that library may be
> included with, for me, I have no idea. Some things are
> obvious, the above is not. Searching for this file on
> packages.debian.org tells me it's in the package kdelibs4c2a.
>
> The name has a k in it, but to me it doesn't really give
> a solid indicator that it might be from kde, in this case
> it happens to be though.
Perhaps you need to re-read the yum man page and see what the provides
command does....
[hyclak@euclid ~]$ yum provides libkabc_dir.so.1
Loading "priorities" plugin
Searching Packages:
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-9.el4 base
Matched from:
libkabc_dir.so.1
Matt
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