[oclug] Debian + RPM

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:48:05AM -0500, Michael Bazdell wrote:
> Okay so I'm trying to install something called Multisync. It goes on
> flawlessly and everything. But in order to do what I really want it to
> do, I either have to compile a module for it from source, which means I
> gotta fight with it because it says i don't have gtk+-2.0 which I have a
> newer version of and not sure how to tell it that. But anyways, I can

Typically on Debian systems, if a configure script can't find a library
you're sure you have, the problem is that you haven't installed the -dev
version of the package.

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