Installing mysql-dev packages on openSuse 11.1

Question

I'm trying to get the Ruby mysql gem installed and running. The installation of this gem requires the presence and availability of mysql dev libraries.

mysql --version tells me I'm running distribution 5.0.67.

The box is openSUSE 11.1. I am marginally familiar with the apt-get package manager. My first attempts to get the dev packages installed were:

> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libmysqlclient-dev

I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to go from here. Suggestions?

Answer 1

I had forgotten Suse installs generally use yast. I was able to locate and install the mysql dev libraries from /sbin/yast2.