Missing many devel packages

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Hi,

What are the devel repos I need to add?

Are they

**src-oss **

 Source RPMs. Advanced users only. 
  Version:
 **11.1**
[Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/)   

** Src-non-oss **

 Source RPMs. Advanced users only. 
    ](http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Susemini.png)     Version:
 **11.1**
[Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/)

11.1 repos don’t add in 11.2, I got errors when importing the keys.
I am missing some devel packages I need to compile cairo-dock but I can’t find them anywhere. I try to rebuild the source rpm and rpmbuild gives me the following dependencies unmet:

        dbus-glib-devel
        glitz-glx-devel
        libXcomposite-devel
        libXinerama-devel
        libXrender-devel
        libXtst-devel
        libXxf86vm-devel
        WebKit-gtk-devel

I don’t know where to look now, I googled, I checked suse repos and could not find how to get those packages. I have Packamn and many others on my list, including Factory and Contrib, Community, etc.

tnx

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Hi
You might want to use the search feature of zypper or YaST?
eg


zypper se dbus*devel

dbus-1-devel
dbus-1-glib-devel
dbus-1-python-devel
dbus-1-qt3-devel

It depends on what distro your coming from, glitz-glx-devel files are
in glitz-devel, some of the others are in xorg-x11-devel.

It also depends on the header files your looking for. I use;

And use the advanced search feature to find any headers.

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I come from 10.3, but all this is in 11.2 RC1 KDE4. Oh you mean the source rpm? That one comes from Fedora, it might not help.

I do have the dbus-1-glib-devel, if it is same as dbus-glib-devel, it seems the rpmbuild doesn’t see it that way, so I am stuck there for the moment.

for example, I searched for ‘xinerama’ but could not find one single package containing the word. That’s why I think I am missing repos somewhere, or the xinerama files are in a totally different package and… oh wait, I think it’s possible to search through (inside) the packages for libs, right?

For example package ‘abc123’ could provide ‘libxinerama-devel’. That I can do from Yast, I will try. Zypper certainly can as well, I’ve read it somewhere.

The problem is when the package is named differently than what rpmbuild would list, I can hardly know easily.

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Hi
Yes if it comes from a different distro it won’t work in most cases due
to the differing package names…

You need to unpack the src rpm, modify the spec file and rebuild the
rpm.

Why not use a proper rpm for openSUSE? If you ask packman they will
probably update and put in the 11.2 repository, else download the src
rpm for 11.1 and rebuild that.

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Ok I see, that’s what I thought, if it’s not opensuse it might cause problems. Learning… :slight_smile:

I think of asking Packman, yes, but I would not want to ask them every time cairo-dock releases a new version, it’s a never ending story, that’s why I wanted to compile it myself. I tried with the source tar but I end up with dependencies issues (only for plugin package) I cannot find, then I tried the fedora source rpm but I end up with different names on dependencies and it’s as much complicated.

I think best way is to ask Packman then. It was my next step after the source rpm. :slight_smile:

11.1 rpm has an older version, it’s possible dependencies changed since. I know it did at some point, not sure between 2.0.7 and 2.1.0 it did, though.

Let’s try the Packman way. :slight_smile:

tnx!

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Hi
Generally when there is an update, packman will pick it up
automatically and an update will appear. If you ask, I’m sure they will
build the later version as well.

You can always use the spec file (depending on issues) and just
reference the later tarball in the spec file and it should build unless
there are patches which may/may not require updating/deleting.

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For some reason Packman did not update since July. There has been 3-4 versions since.

So I went the simple way and emailed them about it with web links providing the codes, as a reference.

I guess I won’t be able to compile it myself in the future, unless I manage to find out about the dependencies. Maybe throughout time I will, but if Packman can keep it fairly up to date, then no need for me to compile. :slight_smile:

tnx