Re: [Openxenmanager-users] [RFC]Building openxenmanager

[Appiah <mu...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, harryxiyou <har...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Appiah <mu...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Appiah
>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM, harryxiyou <har...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Hi list and mike,
>>>
>>> I run  openxenmanager as this link
>>> (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/openxenmanager/wiki/GettingStarted#Centos)
>>> says.
>>> My pc environment is Centos 5.4.
>>>
>>> According to these steps, i can not get some packages like
>>> pixbuf.tar.gz, python.2.5.tar.gz,
>>> and centos_libs.tar.bz2. And then i find gdk-pixbuf.tar.gz and
>>> Python-2.5.tgz via Google.
>>> But i can not find centos_libs.tar.bz2 yet by Google. I am not sure if
>>> gdk-pixbuf.tar.gz is
>>> the same as pixbuf.tar.gz.
>>>
>>> Could anyone give me some suggestions?  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>> Harry Wei
>>>
>>
>> Hi, like it says on the top of the centos instructions.
>> "This solution requires pre-compiled libraries and we have no idea on
>> where does files are today... links are broken ".
>>
>> The person who wrote this Running on Centos (and Debian Lenny) guide
>> didnt document what was in those files so no one knows if gdk-pixbuf
>> is the same as pixbuf.tar.gz and where all those files are....
>> I didn't like the whole download the libraries like this for a reason.
>> Centos and Debian at the time of the writing had very old libraries.
>>
>> It works fine on Debian Squeeze and i bet it could work with the
>> libraries providied in Centos 6.2 if you use that.
>> If you are trying to get this to run a Centos as in the Xenserver
>> itself you will have to do what the person who wrote the Centos guide
>> did, which is .... well I dont know.
>>
> Hmm.., well, you always use openxenmanager under debian, right?
>
> --
> Thanks
> Harry Wei

No I mostly use Gentoo, I occasionally use Debian/Ubuntu desktops.
I can give CentOS 6 (6.2,3?) a try and come back with results.

// Appiah