Re: [Visualpython-users] gtkgl library

[Andrew W. <an...@ph...>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:35:36 -0500, David Andersen wrote:

>I've never built it myself but I did look to see if it was available: 
>www.rpmfind.net has a gtkglarea-1.2.3-2.src.rpm, which I assume is the 
>latest version.

You can extract, compile, and install directly with the 'rpm' command
once you have the archive:

rpm --rebuild   gtkglarea-1.2.3-2.src.rpm

That will not only extract, compile and install it, it will also leave
a binary package (gtkglarea-1.2.3-2.rpm) sitting in a directory under
/usr/src/redhat somewhere. The extraction and compilation gets done
under there too, but I can never remember exactly where, it's not hard
to find.

Not that I've actually managed to get Visual working under linux - I
tried ages ago with older versions of Visual and Redhat, and gave up
after hitting a morass of dependencies. I already had it working under
windows anyway...

On the topic of extracting the contents of RPM's without 'rpm' or
'rpm2cpio', I'd say it would be tricky without digging through source
code for the file format. Easiest just to extract a source rpm on a
redhat box using rpm, then find and copy the sources off from
/usr/src/redhat to wherever you want them.

Andrew

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