[Kmfl-devel] Installation to Fedora 8 [was: Re: Installaing KMFL in current distros - Ubuntu, Debia
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From: K. S. <sk...@gm...> - 2007-12-06 08:13:56
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On Dec 5, 2007 4:08 AM, Doug Rintoul <dou...@si...> wrote: > K. Sethu wrote: > > Fedora 8 - Compiling from tarballs fail. 0.9.6 RPM binaries of > > Mandriva 2008 and older RPM binaries of older SuSe also fail to get > > installed. > I have generated RPMs for Fedora 8. The only thing missing on the > development system I just installed was perl-XML-Parser and scim-devel. > You may also need libxkbfile-devel. > > Once the above were installed, I generated rpms by typing > > sudo rpmbuild -tb kmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz > > and installing the resulting rpms (except debuginfo). > > then > > sudo rpmbuild -tb libkmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz > > The above should be libkmfl-0.9.6.tar.gz and not "libkmflcomp-0.9.6.tar.gz" , right? > and installing the resulting rpms (except debuginfo). > > then > > sudo rpmbuild -tb scim-kmfl-imengine-0.9.6.tar.gz > > and installing scim-kmfl-imengine-0.9.6-1fc8.i586.rpm. > Thanks for the info. This morning I installed from the 3 tarballs into my Fedora 8 successfully. The procedure I used was the following 3 steps while in each directory having the expanded contents of the respective tar ball: ./configure --prefix=/usr make sudo make install perl-XML-Parser had been installed in mine before. Following your tips I added scim-devel. Then kmflcomp and libkmfl each got compiled and installed. But scim-kmfl-imengine failed (on compiling or installation I don't recollect now - I am on a different laptop at work on Windoze now while writing this). However after libxkbfile-devel which you mentioned as may be needed, scim-kmfl-imengine also got compiled and installed. I am curious as to why scim-kmfl-imengine is dependent on libxkbfile-devel when xkb is a different IME? > I know there is a way of generating rpms as nonroot but I was lazy and I > was doing this on a virtual machine so the risk was minimal. > > I can email you the RPMs if you wish. Well, no need. I will myself try and see how rpm is made using rpmbuild which is new for me. I know to generate rpm using "checkinstall" in lieu of "make install" but in my Fedora 8 the checkinstall has some problem to be sorted out. >I am hesitant to upload them to > sourceforge. I am not really interested in trying to generate RPMs for > every distro under the sun every time there is a new version of kmfl. > Yes - but if there is demand in future from Fedora users you may have to do that also or provide guidance on compiling and installing. I will write on im-switch matter when I get time soon (certainly by this weekend). im-switch is Also will send the error message in SuSe10.3 when I go home today. ~Sethu |