Christoph Maser wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Charles E Campbell > Jr: > >> Hello: >> >> I have a Fedora Core 11 system at home (Centos 5.2 at work). I'd like >> to build vim with huge and perl. This works under Centos, but fails at >> home: no EXTERN.h or perl.h (and, presumably, other things). So: is >> there a yum package I should be downloading, and if so, which one? >> (both the home computer and the work computer are 64-bit systems) >> >> Thank you, >> Chip Campbell >> >> > > The command: > yum provides "*/$filename" > > will tell you wich packages provide a certain file > Thanks -- I'll try it out tonight at home. However, I note that trying it on my Centos machine yields: $ yum provides '*/EXTERN.h' Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of //var/cache/yum/addons/filelists.xml.gz from addons So I'm trying yum makecache and then yum provides "*/EXTERN.h" Loaded plugins: fastestmirror (works!) Thank you, Chip Campbell -- someday I'll have a good signature, I'm sure of it...