[Tfug] package/repository confusion

[Jordan Aberle]

You can always download the source and compile it if you are having problem
finding a pre-compiled binary for your distribution.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16847

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:07 PM, christopher floess <skeptikos at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone. This may seem like it's a bit trivial, but I need to
> install xmlrpc-c and I can't find it in my repositories. I've found a
> link for it, on the web, but clicking it and clicking install in the
> subsequent dialog doesn't work. I could post the error, but what I'm
> really concerned about is clearing up why this package doesn't show up
> in yast when I search for it.
>
> It also leads to a deeper question, which is, how does one figure out
> which repositories contain what? I've added several repositories to
> yast, which has allowed me to install things that require proprietory
> codecs and what not, but it seems like I'm perpetually searching for
> new repositories, and I never know which repositories to add to get
> certain softwares to be available to me.
>
> I'm a bit confused about this because things seemed simpler in FreeBSD
> where a whereis query even returns things that aren't installed but
> are still available by way of the ports tree. It just seems that
> getting software installed is more cumbersome than it ought to be. Is
> it opensuse? Is ubuntu easier? Thanks for the feedback ~ floose
>
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