Re: Checking versions

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le vendredi 03 d�mbre 2004 �3:06 -0800, amish gtk a �it :
> Hi,
> I have the slackware distribution. The package manager
> showed that both gtk+-1.2.10 and gtk+2-2.2.4 are
> installed. My ultimate goal is to try and run an
> application called scim which requires the gtk2-devel
> package. I thought installing gtk+2.4 would solve the
> problem but it seems the devel package is already
> installed (gtk+2-2.2.4). I was wondering what is the
> difference between the devel package and a regular
> package?. Thanks I really appreciate your help,
> Amish

regular and devel packages are not relevant for slackware, but on many
other distributions (FC, MDK, Debian), devel packages contain headers
files, static libraries and some other stuff necessary for developpers,
but not for other users.