[ILUG] how do you find what application contains a specific library.

[Josef Assad]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:24:57 +0100
Conor Daly <conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:45:44AM +0100 or so it is rumoured
> hereabouts, Darragh Ó Héiligh thought:
> > An application I am trying to install is looking for libasound.so in
> > SuSE 10.2.
> The other possibility is to consider using apt.  You can get at apt by
> installing synaptic (which is a gui interface and so might not suit
> you). Or you can run apt by itself.  
> 
> apt-get update
> 
> followed by
> 
> apt-get install <your application>

"apt-cache search libasound" would work too.



Cheers

JA

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