Re: RHEL 6.2 and gtk+ dependency hell

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Sarah Duncan <sarah_duncan wgbh org> wrote:
> Thanks Yeti!  I did finally find all of the necessary versions, but would still be glad to learn a bit more from this experience, if you don't mind.
>
> Part of my problem has definitely been that I don't know the nomenclature, so it's not obvious to me that gtk2-devel is the same as source code for gtk+-2.0.  I know unix well, but am relatively new to Red Hat and Linux.  I tried googling "gadmin red hat", "gadmin rhel packages", and a number of other variants, and couldn't find packages for gadmin-proftpd for rhel6, which is what prompted me to install from source.  Are they out there?

most linux distributions these days split software libraries into two
separate but related packages. 1 package exists for the purpose of
just being able to run programs that use the library. the other (the
"-devel" or "-dev", depending on the distro) package is needed to be
able to *build* a program (or other library) that uses the library.