Re: [rox-users] mandrake and 1.3.5. how I installed it

[George De B. <Sou...@my...>]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:05:14 +0100
Olivier Ripoll <oli...@un...> wrote:

> As I see a message about mandrake9.0 and rox 1.3.5, here is how I
> installed it.

I really appreciate your input here.

> The problem with the src.rpm file seems to be that it requires gtk-devel
> > 2.0.1 but mandrake does not use such a package. "libgtkdevel" (2.0.6)
> or something close exists, which actually is what is needed. The way to

Actually, mdk 9 does have the gtk-devel package.  However, I suspect
that there is something else that is causing it to not be found.

> install is thus to use --nodeps when rebuilding the package. This worked
> fine for me yesterday. The binary rpm created then is okay to be
> installed.

That worked for me too.  

> A better way would be to change the spec file, but I could not (using
> mc).

Some time when I have a chance, I will look at this more closely.  I
suspect that the problem really is either (a) incorrect pathing, or
(b) something not installed quite correctly during the mdk setup
(would not be the first time for something like this).

Per Gotz's input I am looking at the RPM packaging instructions from
Mandrake, and will look at RedHat's too.  That will (hopefully) assist
me in detecting what isn't working correctly.  Also, I hope that I'll
learn enough to be able to build RPM's for my current project. :)

// George