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Hi all:
Its me again with another problem. I installed opengl yesterday and got it working. I had some time
today and decided to try to install Allegro again. I can tell you it did not go well. Maybe someone can
help me out on this.

This is the package I downloaded from pkgs.org for Mageia 7: lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64.rpm
I first installed it with yum. It looked like it installed. In searching /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu directory I found
nothing. I tried to install again and it said it was already installed. Oh boy, here we go again. Mageia is wearing
me down! So I tried to use urpmi with the correct switches to re-install. It showed it was installing. All went well.
Upon searching all the possible places it could be, I found nothing. I DON"T THINK MAGEIA LIKES ME AT ALL!

One more time I need help. If anyone knows how to stop Mageia from writing files to the .cache directory I
will be all set. Thanks guys!!!

I just ran the yum reinstall command and this is what it reported:

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[root@localhost Downloads]# yum reinstall lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 1:30:10 ago on Sun 15 Dec 2019 02:53:56 PM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
======================================================================================================
 Package                    Architecture      Version                   Repository               Size
======================================================================================================
Reinstalling:
 lib64allegro5.2            x86_64            5.2.4.0-3.mga7            @commandline            317 k

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================

Total size: 317 k
Installed size: 1.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                                              1/1
  Reinstalling     : lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64                                        1/2
  Cleanup          : lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64                                        2/2
  Verifying        : lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64                                        1/2
  Verifying        : lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64                                        2/2

Reinstalled:
  lib64allegro5.2-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64                                                               

Complete!

Two files did finally show up:

liballegro.so.5.2 and liballegro.so.5.2.4

No header files or extensions

Why not use the Mageia tools? To find out where the files will be installed:

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% urpmq -l lib64allegro5.2
/etc/allegro5rc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/35b50a86d5799bf3b8848d1783c56fc01d537f
/usr/lib64/liballegro.so.5.2
/usr/lib64/liballegro.so.5.2.4
/usr/share/doc/lib64allegro5.2
/usr/share/doc/lib64allegro5.2/CHANGES-5.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/lib64allegro5.2/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/lib64allegro5.2/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/lib64allegro5.2/README.txt


As a general rule, if you want header files, you need to install the corresponding -devel package, which in this case would be lib64allegro-devel.

Hi martinw:

I installed the devel file for allegro. It said it installed, but I got NOTHING.

I did a search for allegro.h and it was not found. No /include/allegro5 directory. No header files.
I did a search for liballegro_image.so.5.2 and nothing found. No extensions.
I guess it's not my day!

You don't mention how you searched. This is what I did, although output is from a Mageia 6 system.

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[doktor5000@Mageia6VM ~]$ urpmf 'allegro.h$'
liballegro-devel:/usr/include/allegro5/allegro.h
liballegro4-devel:/usr/include/allegro.h
[doktor5000@Mageia6VM ~]$

This searches in all configured repositories for a package that contains a file "allegro.h" (I'm using the regex anchor $ as there are some other files allegro.html and such which I was not interested in, you can also omit it to see the full list of results)

I tried again this morning to install the Allegro libraries. I sat here and watched it install and I got NO FILES!
It is impossible to load this software! I am NOT wasting another day on this! Time to move on!
Happy Holidays to everyone!

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[root@localhost martin]# urpmi lib64allegro-devel
    $MIRRORLIST: media/core/release/lib64allegro-devel-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64.rpm
installing lib64allegro-devel-5.2.4.0-3.mga7.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...                     #############################################
      1/1: lib64allegro-devel    #############################################
[root@localhost martin]# ls /usr/include/allegro5/
alcompat.h          allegro.h                allegro_ttf.h    bitmap_io.h    debug.h    fmaths.h           keyboard.h      path.h          tls.h
allegro5.h          allegro_image.h          allegro_video.h  bitmap_lock.h  display.h  fshook.h           keycodes.h      platform/       touch_input.h
allegro_acodec.h    allegro_memfile.h        allegro_x.h      blender.h      drawing.h  fullscreen_mode.h  memory.h        render_state.h  transformations.h
allegro_audio.h     allegro_native_dialog.h  altime.h         clipboard.h    error.h    haptic.h           monitor.h       shader.h        utf8.h
allegro_color.h     allegro_opengl.h         base.h           color.h        events.h   inline/            mouse_cursor.h  system.h
allegro_direct3d.h  allegro_physfs.h         bitmap_draw.h    config.h       file.h     internal/          mouse.h         threads.h
allegro_font.h      allegro_primitives.h     bitmap.h         cpu.h          fixed.h    joystick.h         opengl/         timer.h
[root@localhost martin]#


Where did you look?

I don't think OP is interested in continuing this, see the earlier comment:

It is impossible to load this software! I am NOT wasting another day on this! Time to move on!