[PlanetCCRMA] Re: devel libraries problem

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:36 -0500, PMG wrote:
> --- Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:37 -0500, PMG wrote:
> > > Hello! I've been using CCRMA for a while now, and
> > had
> > > some questions to ask. I've recently had problems
> > when
> > > building programs from source. Some developement
> > > packages aren't provided for some libraries (like
> > > libsndfile, which I had a great head-ache to
> > install,
> > > but finally succeeded :). I was wondering if 
> > there is
> > > a way to get around building programs that require
> > > such dev-libraries that aren't provided?
> > 
> > In general all development libraries are provided,
> > they are just not
> > installed by default. For example, you may have
> > "libsndfile" but if you
> > want to build programs using it you have to do this
> > as well:
> > 
> >   apt-get install libsndfile-devel
> > 
> > That will bring all the necessary stuff...
> > Look for a missing "-devel" package if you hit this
> > in the future.
> > -- Fernando
> 
> Hello, here is an example. I want to build beast from
> source. I need the libmad-devel package. I do: "yum
> search libmad" which gives me this:
> 
> madplay.i386                            
> 0.15.2-0.lvn.1.b.3     livna-stable
> 
> libmad-devel.i386                       
> 0.15.1-0.lvn.1.b.3     livna-stable
> Matched from:
> libmad-devel
> 
> libmad.i386                             
> 0.15.1-0.lvn.1.b.3     livna-stable
> Matched from:
> libmad
> 
> libmad.i386                             
> 0.15.1b-3.rhfc3.ccrma  installed
> Matched from:
> libmad
> 
> And here is the problem, when I try to install the
> devel package, it says I don't have libmad.i386
> 0.15.1-0.lvn.1.b.3. This is normal since I've got the
> CCRMA version (0.15.1b-3.rhfc3.ccrma) installed. I
> can't install the other version either so... dunno
> what to do, please help. 

You could, for example, comment out livna from your apt configuration
files and see if you can install ccrma's version. Most probably the
library from the (newer?) livna version is not compatible with Planet
CCRMA's version. 

-- Fernando