Re: Yet another newbie

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Zach Frey wrote:
> 
> Jesse D. Sightler wrote:
> > > I'd be happy to be turning in quality bug reports, and even some
> > > patches, but I need to get something up and running first.  Stable
> > > RPMs would help.
> >
> > Then please turn in comprehensive, and useful reports on EXACTLY what
> > the problems with the RPMs are.  Simply saying "there are some" isn't
> > enough.  :)  Seriously, it works fine here.
> 
> Already did that -- see
> http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-February/0177.html
> for my first such report, which disappeared into the ether with
> nary a response.  Since other people are reporting similar problems with
> .spec files, and since the general tone of the responses has been "can't
> be
> bothered with RPMs, I'm busy coding", it's not terribly encouraged me to
> submit more.
> 
> But since you asked, the trouble I've had with installing pre-built
> RPMs had been prerequisites -- particularly gtk+.  Some RPMs require
> 1.1.13,
> other 1.1.14.  I tried --nodeps, but apparantly the exact version is
> required.  I've seen others report similar problems, so I haven't
> bothered
> mentioning it myself.

Then either use SRPMS or install both binaries of GTK (using --force).

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