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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > 
> > I was about to go hunting for libtiff, libjpeg libping 
> > libgpm and libX11 in the CDs for Caldera 2.3 and SuSe 6.2.  

Because I could not find some of these files in the Slackware file list. 

Thanks for posting the names of the packages where they are found.  Since
I think I need only one file each from jpeg6.tgz and gpm.tgz I may try
unzipping them at a friend's FreeBSD server (via DSL) and downloading only
the one file I need from each package, rather than 'installing the
package' - would this work?  I think I did this for the one ssl library
file needed by Lynx.  Is there any reason I would want the whole jpeg6
package?  Do I also need to make symlinks for the files?  

I also download at 33K.  I have THREE 33k modems but there does not seem
to be any way to use them serially to speed things up ;)

> Caldera?  SuSE?  Why?  BasicLinux is designed to use
> Slackware packages.  The first place to look (for BL2)
> is Slackware 7.1:
> -------------------------------------
> libtiff      /slakware/d1/libtiff.tgz
> libjpeg      /slakware/d1/jpeg6.tgz
> libpng       /slakware/d1/libpng.tgz 
> libgpm       /slakware/a5/gpm.tgz
> libX11       /slakware/x1/xbin.tgz
> -------------------------------------
> 
> It is more difficult to install packages from other 
> distributions *and* they might not be compatible with 
> BasicLinux.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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