On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 08:42 -0800, nate wrote: > Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos > > 5 64-bit. > > > > I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about > > wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and installed, and > > ./configure for pgadmin saw wxWidgets and was happy with that. Go to > > make... > > > > It complains that some header file is missing. A google search reveals > > limited answers, but the same couple of searches reveal the wxwidgets > > Something I've wondered for a while, is there any site out there that > allows you to search by filename to find what package a file belongs > to for a particular distribution? One of the many things I've loved > about Debian for years is their packages.debian.org site which among > other things allows exactly that. It's so handy. > > Unless yum or some other tool provides this information(I'm not > aware of any tool that can provide this. > > I still refer to packages.debian.org when I'm trying to find what > package I need for a particular file, despite it being Debian at > least I can get an idea what the source of the file is and can try > to track down an equivalent for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora. > > And to be clear, I'm not talking about the rpm -q -f <file> command, > I'm talking about finding package names for files that are NOT > installed on your system(s). I suppose I could do rpm -q -l -p <package> > for each and every RPM, and maintain that list, but that'd also > assume that I have every RPM, which I may not(base distro RPMs > aside). > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos http://rpmfind.net/ HTH, Calin ================================================= In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos