joeclark Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 So, I'm making up a nice fresh installation of Mandrake 10.1 to do some iptables development work. I needed to add the following packages: iptables-devel openssl-devel curl-devel urpmi did not find any of these (the machine is offline so it would have only searched the CD databases). I looked at rpmfind.net and found the right version of iptables-devel. However, I could not find anything at all for Mandrake/Mandriva for openssl-devel and curl-devel. So, I'm building from source. So much for package management. This is a good share of the reason that people like me think RPMs are evil -- the distribution just always seems to be missing something I need to have (or maybe gives it some non-guessable name or something). Any ideas why 2/3 development packages don't seem to exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 perhaps you're looking for them by the wrong names: libopenssl-devel libcurl3-devel are both on your cd's, as is iptables-devel. do you have all 3 cd's? all of these packages are in the main branch of the ftp mirrors for 10.1 I found them on my favorite server: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...586/media/main/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeclark Posted April 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 perhaps you're looking for them by the wrong names:libopenssl-devel libcurl3-devel are both on your cd's, as is iptables-devel. do you have all 3 cd's? all of these packages are in the main branch of the ftp mirrors for 10.1 Hmm, I wondered if there was a trick to it. I don't know what happend with iptables, but doing my RPM search found openssl-devel and curl-devel for most other distros, so I figured that was probably a standard name. Guess I was wrong. Is there any way to discover names like "libcurl3" or is it just something you've gotta know? urpmi isn't exactly the most helpful at trying to find matches. Sorry if I sound annoyed, I just have these sorts of problems almost every time I want to do anything with RPMs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 urpmq --fuzzy is pretty good, as is the rpmdrake graphical search. 'urpmq --fuzzy curl' would certainly have found it, so would searching for curl in rpmdrake. That's how I usually do it. Package names differ between different distros according to the distro's packaging policy, there's no official 'standard'. At MDV, we split software into application and library packages where possible, and further split the library into runtime and development parts, so you get a three-way split: app, libapp and libapp-devel . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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