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Old 07-20-2004, 07:02 AM   #1
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Question what is devel, silc, tcl??? (newbie)


Hi everyone,

Sorry if this bothers you (that I am so stupid or something like that...),
but I would like to know what devel, silc and tcl means.

It has appeared quite a number of times on those rpm packages that I would like to install on my Linux platform.

For example:

gaim-0.80-0mdk10.0.i586.rpm
gaim-devel-0.80-0mdk10.0.i586.rpm
gaim-silc-0.80-0mdk10.0.i586.rpm
gaim-tcl-0.80-0mdk10.0.i586.rpm

Thank you very much.

chis
 
Old 07-20-2004, 07:26 AM   #2
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devel is header files for if you wanted to compile plugins for it.

silc is some new protocol silc.org i think

tcl is presumably a tcl (a programming language) interface for the Gaim API.
 
Old 07-20-2004, 07:44 AM   #3
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Thx for the reply,

So...
Would you mind explaining when I need to dl those rpm packages (devel, silc, tcl)?

I presume that (taking Gaim for example) that dl "gaim-0.80-0mdk10.0.i586.rpm" would suffice. Is that true?

Thx once again.
 
Old 07-20-2004, 08:27 AM   #4
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I would usually get the the main file and the developement headers.
SILC is encrypted IM protocol.
 
  


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