This is probably a stupid question but I think I must be dooing something
wrong here.

How do I find missing shared libraries? How do I know in what package they
can be found?

I have an old computer with a striped down slackware 7.1 derivate (Deli
linux) and it works well but I realized that I need a decent webbrowser so I
decided to download the latest Firefox. When I try to install it I imediatly
get complaints about missing libraries. I search for them on a Slackware 9.1
cd, I have found many in the /slackware/l folder and installed them. Some
..tgz files in this folder have similar names to the missing libraries so I
found them easily. I have found that some libraries reside in packages like
glib2 etc. I have found this by lucky googling but I am sure there must be
an easier way to find in what .tgz package I will find a certain shared
library?

Right now I am having problem finding the libXrandr. I can find Debian,
Gentoo and RPMS with this library online and I am sure it is somewhere on
the CD, I just don't know how to find it. Any pointers apreciated.

Tim

"Tim" <it2gati@ituniv.se> wrote
> How do I find missing shared libraries? How do I know in what package they
> can be found?

Replying to myself here but is it maybe so that I need an pkgmanager like
apt, rpm or so? Or are the slackware tools better, like Slacker or XPKGTOOL?
Which one is recommended?

I found a package listing of xfree86-devel-4.3.0-i486-3 on this adress
http://wwwacs.gantep.edu.tr/docs/pac...l-4.3.0-i486-3

It indicated that a file libXrandr.a would be installed usr/X11R6/lib/ so I
installed this package and it seemed to work but firefox needed
libXrandr.so.2 so it didn't help.

I am pretyt sure I am doing this the complete backwards way but I don't know
what the right way is.

Tim

Tim wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question but I think I must be dooing something
> wrong here.
>
> How do I find missing shared libraries? How do I know in what package they
> can be found?

zless MANIFEST.bz2

or

www.slackwawre.com/pb

> Any pointers apreciated.

here's one: don't use packages from 9.1 on 7.1. you're asking for trouble.
either upgrade everything to 9.1 [heck, 10.0 while you're at it], or
compile stuff on 7.1 [or use 7.1 packages]

On 2004-09-19, Tim <it2gati@ituniv.se> wrote:
>
>
> "Tim" <it2gati@ituniv.se> wrote
>> How do I find missing shared libraries? How do I know in what package they
>> can be found?
>

The Slackware distribution contains a manifest giving which files are in
which packages. Look there.

"Dominik L.. Borkowski"
> Tim wrote:
> > This is probably a stupid question but I think I must be dooing
something
> > wrong here.
> >
> > How do I find missing shared libraries? How do I know in what package
they
> > can be found?
>

> zless MANIFEST.bz2

> www.slackwawre.com/pb
>

Thanks a lot, I couldn't read the manifest but the PB was just what I was
looking for. I will dig deeper into the manifest later when it is an issue
again (see below).

> > Any pointers apreciated.
> here's one: don't use packages from 9.1 on 7.1. you're asking for trouble.
> either upgrade everything to 9.1 [heck, 10.0 while you're at it], or
> compile stuff on 7.1 [or use 7.1 packages]

I think you were tight there, after installing a new x server x couldnt
start anymore and in my atempts to fix it I think I broke the rest so now I
am back to square one with my beloved system in pices.

Anyway, if I had stuck with installing packages from 7.1 I would probably
have managed without breaking anything but my question is, would the
libraries have been up to date enough to run the new Firefox?

All in all now I have downloaded 10.0 and will try to install that on
another partition.

Thanks both

Tim

On Monday 20 September 2004 02:39 am, Tim did deign to grace us with the
following:

> "Dominik L.. Borkowski"

>> > Any pointers apreciated.
>> here's one: don't use packages from 9.1 on 7.1. you're asking for
>> trouble. either upgrade everything to 9.1 [heck, 10.0 while you're at
>> it], or compile stuff on 7.1 [or use 7.1 packages]
>
> I think you were tight there, after installing a new x server x couldnt
> start anymore and in my atempts to fix it I think I broke the rest so now
> I am back to square one with my beloved system in pices.
>
> Anyway, if I had stuck with installing packages from 7.1 I would probably
> have managed without breaking anything but my question is, would the
> libraries have been up to date enough to run the new Firefox?
>
Probably not a precompiled package, no. If you compiled from source,
maybe, unless they used some completely new feature that only exists
in the newer libraries.

> All in all now I have downloaded 10.0 and will try to install that on
> another partition.

I'd recommend this one - Slackware is really good about being able to trim
bloat, so space shouldn't be a problem. :-)

Cheers!
Rihc