Re: balsa for RedHat 6.2

[Chris <cr orcon net nz>]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 13:16:17 +0200
Pawel Salek <pawsa@theochem.kth.se> wrote:

> 
> On 2001.10.22 03:12 Chris wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me -
> > will the latest Balsa work with RH6.2?   (If of course I
> > install all the necessary libs etc).
> 
> It should. The binary rpm is build on rh7.1 and this is why you get so 
> many failed dependencies. But, assuming you have rh6.2+updates (rpm update 
> is crucial, balsa.spec file uses some rpm-4.0 constructions that were not 
> available at rpm-3.x level, I believe; I think rpm-build package is 
> necessary as well), following line should do:
> 
> rpm --recompile balsa-1.2.0-1.src.rpm
> 
> I know Carlos Morgado built balsa on rh6.2. Binary packages are available 
> at
> ftp://ftp.chbm.nu/pub/
> but they seem to require ximian.
> 
> /Pawel

Thanks for that information - I'll give it a try.

Regards

Chris