Re: [gnome-core] Can't Install Gnome because of libfreetype.la

[ArchAngel_Nix <ni...@ho...>]

Renamed local to local-away and then typed: fink install bundle-gnome.
Same error.

Any other suggestions?

On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:06 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> ArchAngel_Nix wrote:
>
>> I tried to install Gnome yesterday and it keeps failing on 
>> libgnomeprintui. From the last of the results I can see it is having 
>> a problem with a file called libfreetype.la. I think this has to do 
>> with the fact that I replaced the libfreetype files with 
>> updated/cracked version recently. I read an article on how to make 
>> OpenOffice fonts look better and I had to used the hacked files to do 
>> so. I have since removed them and restored the originals but the 
>> problem persists. Here is the last few lines of the install. I was 
>> trying to install bundle-gnome.
>> grep: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.la: No such file or directory
>
> If you didn't install Fink in /usr/local, your best bet would be to 
> move the whole /usr/local directory out of the way while you are 
> compiling Fink packages.
>
>  sudo mv /usr/local /usr/local_away
>  fink install something
>  sudo mv /usr/local_away /usr/local
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
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