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Re: Libs & stuff



I know that and i know too that if ill tell what lib is missing someone here
will know.

But what i wanted to know if there is a site that i can put the lib in and it
will tell me to what its belong (or maybe docs)

Im trying to be independent :-)

"Peter L. Peres" wrote:

> 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

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