Re: [rox-users] ROX on suse2

[Thomas L. <ta...@le...>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, maarten2 wrote:

> Hi, I still can't get it to work properly. I tried the commands leonard
> povided.
[ ... ]
> > The '-devel' packages are needed to compile programs, but not to run
> > them. If you don't have the devel packages then get the -devel.rpm files
> > from www.gtk.org.
> 
> i do not have the -devel.rpm files and i can't find them on www.gtk.org
> currently the rpm command lists gtk-1.2.7-21 and glib-1.2.7-19 (not gtk+-)

There are some here:

	ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/binary/RPMS

They're for RedHat, though. Does anyone know if they work on SuSE?

However, they're probably on your SuSE CDs...

> and i get the following error while compiling ROX:
[ missing header files ]

The missing files are from the -devel packages.

> > Install / upgrade with:
> >
> > $ rpm -Uhv *.rpm
> 
> should i just enter this at the command line?

Yep, from a directory containing (just) the four RPMs. Or, replace *.rpm
with the file names...

> > Hopefully, we'll be releasing a binary version of the filer in a week or
> > so...
> 
> Does that help me? What is the difference between the current version and a
> binary one?

The current one is supplied in source form, so it doesn't depend on what
kind of computer you have - you compile it into a form that your
particular computer can handle. This requires the -devel packages.

To save you doing this, we can create pre-compiled versions, but we have
to make one per platform (one for Pentiums, one for ARMs, one for Alphas,
etc). This takes lots of time, so we don't do them for the in-developement
versions.

Soon, we'll produce a 'stable' version which will be the one for normal
users for some time to come (maybe a year or so), while we (the
developers) start a new series of development versions with new features
:-)

To make sure we've got the hang of making binary packages, we're intending
to make one for Pentium-type machines in the next release. This should
work on your system...


Hope that clarifies things a bit ;-)

Thomas Leonard
-- 
tal197 at users.sourceforge.net
The ROX desktop (free/GPL) : http://rox.sourceforge.net