Re: video scrensaver

["Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich gmail com>]

On 5/17/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz pobox com> wrote:
> You need the perl-XML-Parser package.  You can install perl modules
> either by package name or by specifying them by module:
>
>     yum install "perl(XML::Parser)"
I tried both methods - neither one does anything (I get "Nothing to
do" for perl, perl-XML-parser and "perl(XML::parser)".  I would think
that meant that they are installed, but I still get errors on them
(and others).

> I don't know if yum-utils is available for CentOS or not, but it
> includes yum-builddep which can be used to install the build
> dependencies for rpms.  As it's unlike that the build deps changed
> between 2.16.1 and 2.16.3, you should be able to say:
>
>     yum-builddep gnome-screensaver

Same result.

> You really ought to use rpm to do this.  That likely means rebuilding
> the current rpm with the updated gnome-screensaver.  Otherwise you'll
> either have two version on your system or you'll overwrite one or
> you'll just remove the rpm version and leave any packages that require
> that rpm wondering what's going on.
I went to http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/SRPMS/
and pulled down the gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.fc6.src.rpm, but after
I installed it, I got this:

$ rpmbuild -bp --target=`uname -m` gnome-screensaver.spec
Building target platforms: x86_64
Building for target x86_64
error: Failed build dependencies:
       gnome-menus-devel >= 2.11.1 is needed by
gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       libexif-devel >= 0.6.12 is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       libXScrnSaver-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       libXmu-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       perl-XML-Parser is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       nss-devel is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64
       intltool is needed by gnome-screensaver-2.16.3-1.x86_64

I know some of these are in the XML parser package, and that brings me
baclk to square two.

???

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