Re: meld on fedora core 4

[Ralph Siemsen <ralphs netwinder org>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:49:40 -0400 Jack Tanner wrote:

> For line numbering and syntax highlighting, meld requires
> pygtksourceview, but http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtksourceview
> says that "This project is deprecated in favour of the bindings in
> the gnome-python-extras package as of GNOME 2.10." Fedora Core 4 has
> GNOME 2.10, and neither pygtksourceview nor pysourceview are in
> Fedora Extras. Is there work afoot to port meld to the bindings in
> gnome-python-extras? Is it likely to happen in the FC4 lifetime? Or
> is it more productive to just package up pygtksourceview for FC4 and
> ignore the deprecation?

I'm sure everyone has figured this out by now, but I didn't see it 
reported on the list, thought I would share: it seems you need to have 
gnome-printing support installed, as well as the python-binding for 
gnomeprint, otherwise 'import gtksourceview' will fail.

yum install gtksourceview
yum install gnome-python2-gtksourceview
yum install gnome-python2-gnomeprint     <--- the magic one.

If this doesn't work for you, then do what I did:

  strace python -c 'import gtksourceview'

and see what .so files it is unable to find, then figure out what 
package provides those shared objects.

-Ralph

PS. I wonder if it got fixed in FC5 which just came out :)