Jeff Blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 6. Naming packages '-dev' and putting them in the 'stable' area is > really confusing. I specifically avoided downloading anything with
Nay, nay, '-dev' means a package that has files you need to _compile_ with a certain set of libraries, as opposed to the runtime files. I ran the packaged Mosaic, I needed zlib, libjpeg, libpng, etc. I wanted to build the Mosaic alpha sources, I had to get zlib-dev libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev (well, names approximated). libc5 and the many other runtime packages just have object files; libc5-dev and the rest are where the C header files (among other things) go. It's late and I'm not explaining this well, but you probably knew what I mean immediately. If not, someone else'll do better. Oh, yeah, info-browser is provided by emacs, which you probably already do or don't like, or the lowly 'info', which many admit is not so hot a way to see them, if you don't use emacs or xemacs. Hope this is of some use, -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
