Re: Find out where a package is installed.

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 18:20 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
> I'm having fun with a couple of packages.
> Python setup.py install  returns the error
> 
> Package poppler was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `poppler.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> 
> 
> yet I have poppler installed accoding to yum info.
> I can't find 'poppler.pc' on the system anywhere.

looking for a file with yum try:

yum whatprovides '*/poppler.pc'

I think you'll find what you want.


you can also do:

yum install '*/poppler.pc'


-sv