[PLUG] Resolved: finding packages when you don't know the right name

Sat Apr 23 20:14:57 UTC 2005

On Saturday 23 April 2005 9:49 am, Galen Seitz wrote:

> Looks like you want this:
> XFree86-Mesa-devel-4.3.99.902-40.i586.rpm
>
>
> I'm not a SuSE user, but here's how I quickly found the package.
>
> go to rpm.pbone.net
>
> select advanced search
>
> click the 'Uncheck All' button
>
> select 'SuSE 9.X'
>
> enter gl.h for search expression
>
> make sure the 'File Name' and 'Provide' boxes are checked
>
> search
>
> make intelligent guess at appropriate package based on filenames in search
> results

Thanks. This will be very helpful to me in the future, and I suspect others 
can adapt the instructions you gave to their own situation.

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