RE: glibmm-2.8.1

["Foster, Gareth" <gareth foster siemens com>]

>	I'm running Fedora Core 4 which isn't fully updated unfortunately
since it isn't connected to the Internet, nor can be for a while.
	

That's a shame, because by far the best way to do this is:

% yum list | grep mm

Pick all the devel packages out of there (you might be able to do another
grep, | grep devel) and copy and paste them into a command ...

% yum install (packagelist)

Next best bet is to pull the packages from fedora extras and burn them to a
CD, then on the internetless fedora box, do ...

% rpm -ivh /media/cdrecorder/*.rpm

Or similar.

If that fails or isnt an option, then you may need to ./configure with
prefix equals /usr rather than /usr/local, i always get bitten by that on
fedora.

I always thought what would be great, seeing as every distro that matters
uses some sort of package management interface, would be a libpackagemanger,
a nice cpp interface to software management for linux. This would be some
sort of freedesktop.org thing, which had specialisations for each package
tool or distro. 

class c_package_manager
{
  install_package();
  remove_package();
};

Then, it would be "just" a matter of knocking up a Gnome Package manager and
KDE package manager which ran on top of this wonderful api. The next step
would be metapackages, gtkmm being the case in point, which gtkmm.org could
link to, just like a windows installer, the thing would just be an xml file,
which our new gnome package manager can read, to install all the packages
needed for this group.

<xml>
 <package>
  <name>gtkmm</name>
  <req>gtkmm</req>
  <req>gtkmm-devel</req>
  <req>libsigc++</req>
  <req>glibmm</req>
  <req>et cetera</req>
  <source>
   <fedora>
    <url>http:://url-for-fedora-extras</url>
   </fedora>
   <tarball>
    <url>http:://url-for-fallback-to-source-code</url>
  </source>
 </package>
<xml>

That was rampantly off topic, but I had to get it off my chest, maybe it
will inspire somebody anyway.

Gaz