package needed for network manager install

Distro-jumper · 2009-01-12 03:11:33

Trying to configure and install the latest network manager from source and I get an error:

configure: error: couldn't find pppd.h. pppd development headers are required.

The network manager help page:

http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/Net … 8ee2cd8383

states if this error occurs then install the 'ppp-dev' package in Debian.

Anyone know what package I should install on Arch Linux?

pressh · 2009-01-12 08:01:17

[ronald@Miranda ~]$ pacman -Qo $( locate pppd.h )
/usr/include/pppd/pppd.h is owned by ppp 2.4.4-7

Last edited by pressh (2009-01-12 08:02:26)

Distro-jumper · 2009-01-13 02:46:48

Thanks. That's a very cool pacman function. I looked at the pacman wiki, but wouldn't have figured that out. Maybe that should be added to the wiki Query section. Does this query the arch package list or your installed packages?

Also, I tried running the same command and got:

[bob@arch-iBook ~]$ pacman -Qo $( locate pppd.h )
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

I ran it as root and as a normal user with the same error. Do you know why it's not working?

Thanks.

Last edited by Distro-jumper (2009-01-13 02:47:55)

Ghost1227 · 2009-01-13 02:55:03

means that it can't find the file pppd.h anywhere in your filesystem... in other words, you don't have ppp installed. which would also be the answer to your original question.

JGC · 2009-01-13 14:54:11

Why would you compile it from source if there's a package in testing?

Distro-jumper · 2009-01-13 15:35:53

Ghost1227 wrote:

means that it can't find the file pppd.h anywhere in your filesystem... in other words, you don't have ppp installed. which would also be the answer to your original question.

This was done after I installed the ppp package and successfully compiled network manager.

Distro-jumper · 2009-01-13 15:41:55

JGC wrote:

Why would you compile it from source if there's a package in testing?

I'm using the ppc port of arch linux, and unfortunately network manager hasn't been included in testing yet. Though I did flag the packages as out of date a couple of days ago. Hopefully, it will be updated soon because compiling the latest network manager didn't work.

.:B:. · 2009-01-13 17:10:53

That pretty much means this topic is in the wrong forum . Moving.

DaNiMoTh · 2009-01-18 13:00:26

Distro-jumper wrote:

JGC wrote:
Why would you compile it from source if there's a package in testing?
I'm using the ppc port of arch linux, and unfortunately network manager hasn't been included in testing yet. Though I did flag the packages as out of date a couple of days ago. Hopefully, it will be updated soon because compiling the latest network manager didn't work.

If things in ArchlinuxPPC aren't working, you can simply assign to us a bug, that you can insert in Bugs section from www.archlinuxppc.org page.

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package needed for network manager install

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Re: package needed for network manager install

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