[mythtv-users] How to judge those dependencies or packages for compiling had been installed?

[David Watkins]

On 06/03/07, Xi Jiarong <XiJiarong at sp.edu.sg> wrote:
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>
> According to the guide: Installing MythTV SVN Fedora Core on mythtv.org,
> there are so many dependencies and package should be installed, but
> sometimes, some of them could always be lost or left, so I want to ask how
> to judge I have installed all of those required to compile myth? How to know
> which one had beed installed successfully?
>
> for example
> #yum install freetype-devel
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Loading "kmdl" plugin
> Setting up Install process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Nothing to do
>
> Does this mean this freetype-devel had been installed before or not?

#yum list freetype*

will tell you what's installed and what's available.