No package ‘rpm’ found

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While building createrepo_c on Ubuntu 22.04, I got the error:

createrepo_c/build$ cmake ..
-- Checking for module 'rpm'
--   No package 'rpm' found

I have rpm installed, but that apparently doesn’t provide the includes.

All the other missing dependencies came up right away when searching SO, but I can’t seem to find this one, nor can I guess the name, like rpm-dev. What do I need to install to be able to build?

It is actually mentioned in the Readme in the format libname (link) yum install/apt install

The rpm development libraries can be installed with:

sudo apt install librpm-dev

and the full package can be built in Ubuntu 20.04 and newer with:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y libbz2-dev cmake \
  libmagic-dev libglib2.0-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
  libxml2-dev libpython3-dev librpm-dev libssl-dev \
  libsqlite3-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev libzstd-dev

git clone https://github.com/rpm-software-management/createrepo_c.git

mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake .. -DWITH_ZCHUNK=OFF -DWITH_LIBMODULEMD=OFF
make
./src/createrepo_c

but it is much easier on Ubuntu 22.04 to just install it:

sudo apt install createrepo-c

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