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

documentation of libraries

2002-05-06 Thread Rohan Nicholls
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 libraries do what, and where things are stored on the file system. For instan