RE: documentation of libraries

2002-05-13 Thread Rohan Nicholls
Nicholls Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: documentation of libraries On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. Are these Debian packages or third party sof

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > But then there are the libraries. If I am running a program from the > local section of usr will it know to look in /usr/lib/ for shared > libraries or will it only look relative to it (../lib/)? See the ld.so(8) man page. The link

Re: documentation of libraries

2002-05-06 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Hello there, > > I have a happily running debian distribution, but am getting very > confused when trying to install certain software as it claims to be > lacking all sorts of libraries. > > Is there any documentation about what lib