Glad to hear that.
> How should I have gone about finding the true name of the package to
> install?
Hard to say: a bit of Google, a bit of not-so-common knowledge, a bit of
previous experience, a bit of looking into the configure script...
> One final question, what about JPEG-HDR, I'm looking around and is it
> part of another package?
I could not find JPEG-HDR myself; but unless you use another application
capable of reading / writing JPEG-HDR files, I would not care about it.
> And when the configure complains about missing opengl, what package is
> it referring to as I have both mesa-opengl-devel, libGL-devel
> installed.
Ah, OpenGL, the beast... This was the hardest one, I recall installing
lots of packages, until I found the correct one; sadly, I do not
remember which one. I would start with those:
freeglut[-devel]
glew[-devel]
mesa-libGL[-devel]
mesa-libGLU[-devel]
mesa-libGLw[-devel]
> I am really sorry for the traffic, and if you have any advice how I
> can get a clue on this stuff myself, I am all ears.
Do not worry about the traffic, this list was too quiet!