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Re: Libs & stuff



On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Ben Nes Michael wrote:

> While installing few things i got lot of time the message
> 
> need so and so library to run the prog.
> 
> the name of the library don't give me any clue where i can get it or to
> which prog its belongs
> 
> Is there a place or method to detect where to get each library and how ?

Libs are just files and on Slackware you can grep manifest or contents/*
with the name of the seeked lib. The name of the file where you find it is
the package you need to install. Other things live in contrib. 

Beware to save any mods (as in sendmail.cf etc) when installing something.
ls -lR >somewhere.safe and cp -dPR /etc/* /--||-- before is a great help.

Peter