Re: Which RH80. Package Contains libbz2?

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Chas,

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Chas Owens wrote:

> Most likely you have libbz2 installed (it is required for bzip2), but most 
distributions seperate the library (needed for applications to work) and the 
header files (need to compile programs).  The naming convention seems to be
> 
I have libbz2.so but not libbz2.h. When I follow your instructions below I 
can find out which rpm contains libbz2, but I can't gert the rpm command 
to put in libbz2.h, nor can I find the rpm on the install disks, although 
maybe I'm not searching for the right thing there.

Thnaks,
John
 > library:  
<library>-<version>-<packagevers>.rpm
> includes: <library>-devel-<version>-<packagevers>.rpm
> 
> You can also find what rpm a particuler file belongs to using the rpm command
> 
> 
> [cowens Ophidia]$ slocate libbz2
> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
> /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.0
> [cowens Ophidia]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
> libbzip2_1-1.0.2-13mdk
> 
> So the rpm for the include files would be
> 
> libbzip2_1-devel-1.0.2-13mdk.rpm
> 
> Of course this is for a Mandrake 9.1 box not a RedHat 8.0, but you can repeat the steps above to find out which rpm provides the library for you.
> 
> 
> 

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