How to find missing libraries when compiling apps

[Michael]

One of the best recorces to find dependencies is rpmfind.net if you
cant find them through your update manager.  The package it said was
needed is "gdk-pixbuf"  You can get it from this mirror in a source
rpm and just use rpmbuild --rebuild file.rpm.src to build it for your
system.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:36:45 +1000, CB <fedoralist at crispin.cb-ss.net> wrote:
> How do you go about discovering what rpm to install to add a required
> library when trying to compile an application?
> 
> Current example: I want to try out Tomboy
> ( http://beatniksoftware.com/tomboy ). ./configure gives me the
> following error:
> 
>         No package 'gdk-2.0' found
> 
> I've tried doing a 'yum search' and have tried rather randomly
> installing a couple of rpm's with the string 'gdk' in them, but that
> seems a pretty dumb approach. Is there a better one, or do you just have
> to read and comprehend the code to know what to install?
> 
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