Re: [Evolution] Installation Difficulty

[Tony Rein <trein umich edu>]

On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 06:46, Lakshmi Narasimhan wrote:
> I am using RH 6.1 on Kernel 2.4 & XFree86 4.x, have both Gnome & KDE
> desktops which come with 6.1. 
>
>
> Downloaded the tar/gz files and followed the instructions. Got stuck at the
> stage mentioned below: 
>
> I get the following error while running ./configure:
> checking for GTK -
> version >= 1.2.0... no
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking
> why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file
> config.log for the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was
> incorrectly installed
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was
> installed. In the latter case, you
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config
> script: /usr/bin/gtk-config
> configure: error: GTK not installed
Lakshmi:

The problem is that you don't have the "development" packages installed.
Use rpmfind (http://rpmfind.net) to look for packages with names like
"xxx-devel" for Redhat, where "xxx" is whatever the Evolution configure
error message told you you don't have installed.

Another possiblility: If you do already have the required "-devel"
packages installed, perhaps you didn't tell configure the proper
directory to look in for these and related things. The Evolution
"README" has instructions on this.

You might have better luck installing already-compiled binary packages,
instead of building from source. Use your favorite ftp client to go to
ftp.ximian.com - in the /pub/ximian-gnome/redhat-62-i386 directory they
have rpms that you should be able to install on your system. Note that
you won't be able to simply install the Evolution rpm by itself - when
you install it it will tell you what other packages it depends on.
You'll probably have to mess with Package 1 depending on Packages A, B,
and C, and Package A depending in turn on Packages I, II, and III, and
so on. It's kind of a pain, but it's probably still easier than building
from source.

I hope this helps.

Tony