Re: [glade--]how to install glademm on RHL9

[Vladislav Grinchenko <vgrinche integ com>]

Susumu,

I user both rh9 and fedora. 

% rpm -qi libsigc++

libsigc++-1.2.2-1

Name        : libsigc++                    Relocations: /usr 
Version     : 1.2.2                        Vendor: Karl E. Nelson <kenelson ece ucdavis edu>
Release     : 1                            Build Date: Tue 22 Apr 2003 03:15:20 PM EDT
Install Date: Thu 24 Apr 2003              Build Host: dedalus.3rdshift.com
Group       : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: libsigc++-1.2.2-1.src.rpm
Size        : 134498                       License: LGPL
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : 
URL         : http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : The Typesafe Signal Framework for C++



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:43:48PM +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
> Susumu Yoshida schrieb:
> >Thank for your reply again.
> >I am really sorry that I annoy you with an unfamiliar distribution.
> 
> Not that annoying to be sure.
> 
> >>If your linux distribution cannot give you automatic dependancy 
> >>resolution (which I clearly doubt, given that RH/fedora still has 
> >>users), you should consider a decent distribution. Perhaps apt-rpm is 
> >>the correct solution for you.
> >
> >
> >According to you, I installed apt-rpm and tried again but failed.
> 
> Oh, you did not fail. It gave you a decent error message:
> 
> >nana:/home/susumu/SRC# apt-get install libsigc++-devel
> >Reading Package Lists... Done
> >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >libsigc++-devel is already the newest version.
> 
> Perhaps this is libsigc++-1.0 which is the old one for gtkmm1. This used 
> to be called libsigc++ (without a version number). Or ... I heard 
> _rumors_ that redhat/fedora had made some debatable decisions to give 
> incompatible packages the same (but shorter) name. Perhaps sigc++ 1.2 is 
> called libsigc++, too and you got the wrong one.
> 
> >nana:/home/susumu/SRC# apt-get install gtkmm2
> >Reading Package Lists... Done
> >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> >requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> >distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> >or been moved out of Incoming.
> >
> >Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> >the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> >that package should be filed.
> >The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> >The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  gtkmm2: Depends: libsigc-1.2.so.5
> >E: Broken packages
> 
> >See? The newest version of both libsigc++ and libsigc++-devel are
> >already installed on my machine but when I try to "apt-get install gtkmm2",
> >it says "libsigc-1.2 is UNMET".
> >Does it make sense? 
> 
> Yes. Somewhat. It looks like you mixed packages from different 
> incompatible sources. Or apt-rpm can not live to its expectations ;-)
> 
> >
> >You say
> >
> >
> >>Shocked and glad to not _had_ to compile gtkmm myself for several years
> >
> >
> >but is it much easier to use gtkmm on Debian (which is
> > your distribution,right?) ?
> 
> Debian is my distribution and while it has different issues (sometimes 
> transitions take a long time which is mostly due to decisions of the 
> people involved or lack of maintainer's spare time) I grew really fond 
> of its package management.
> 
> The gnome 2.4 situation in sid (unstable) is really good. Sarge 
> (testing) is slowly getting there and woody (stable) is hopelessly frozen.
> 
> But fedora should not be a bad choice either (from what I have heard).
> 
>    Christof
> 
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