On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:28:59PM -0400, Paul DiMarco wrote: > After trying to install a bunch of small games and/or apps I come to > realize that I am missing half of the libraries required on my system for > these games to work. For example I'm trying to install TuxRacer...LOL for > my wife...yea right..and I get the following: > > error: failed dependencies: > libSDL-1.1.so.0 is needed by tuxracer-0.61-2 > libSDL_mixer-1.1.so.0 is needed by tuxracer-0.61-2 > > ...so I assume I need to install those other things first. But that isn't > my problem, my beef is why don't rpm files have all the libraries included > in them? Wouldn't that make our lives easier? I am I the only one who > finds this strange? Perhaps there is a logical explanation to this > madness.
First of all, shared libraries help you, if you let them. If you had 20 games that all required libSDL, would you really want every one of them to distribute their own copy? One copy, and you're done. If there's a bug fix required, it gets done in one place, and you don't need to ask 20 packagers to fix the same bug. To install tuxracer, it's easiest to use up2date. This package not only keeps your packages up to date (hence it's name), it also allows you to install packages *and their dependencies*. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
