Re: Necessary Libraries

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 08 March 2004 08:35 am, Harald Harders wrote:
>
> "rpm --query gd" gives me "gd-2.0.11-26" which, according to gd.trm,
> should work. In /usr/lib, I find the following files: libgd.so.2,
> libgd.so.2.0.0 (where in fact, the first is a symbolic link to the
> second). Ah, I am missing libgd.so. May be, this is the problem. And,
> gd.h is missing, too.

Yes.  You need both libgd.so and gd.h
However, I recommend that you download version 2.0.21 from
boutell.com, and built from source.  Version 2.0.21 is the first to
correctly support symbol font encoding, which is needed for full
support of enhanced text mode in gnuplot.

> I first will reinstall that and ask again, if 
> necessary. I don't understand why my libgd is not totally installed. I
> think, my SuSE 8.2 is the last SuSE on my computers, it is getting worse
> form version to version.

I do not know how SuSE arrange their packages, but Mandrake and
Redhat both split libraries into two packages. The base package
contains the library itself and is suitable for use by pre-built applications.
The second rpm is called whatever-devel-xxx.rpm and contains the
header files (*.h) and the additional library definitions needed to
build new programs.

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