Re: sawfish on red hat 5.3

[Rodrigo Amestica <ramestica nrao edu>]

Hi Christopher,

I gave the installation an other try. Taking into account gtk+'s configuration 
output I installed the following modules manually:

pango-1.17.3
glib-2.13.5

but then gtk+'s compilation failed with an error on a missing definition for 
GHashTableIter. Well, went back and pulled the latest glib (2.22.0) and 
installed that. Now gtk+ compiles successfully and so it does rep-gtk and 
sawfish! But I have not yet tried to run anything, therefore, I still do not 
know whether all this convolution works or not.

thanks,
 Rodrigo

Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 29.09.2009, 12:32 -0400 schrieb Rodrigo Amestica:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install
> >
> > librep 0.90.2
> > rep-gtk 0.90.0
> > sawfish 1.5.2
> >
> > but I'm working on a red hat 5.3 distribution. librep goes okay, but rep-gtk 
> > will fail because I do not have gtk+. If I try to install gtk+-2.12.12 I get so 
> > mane dependency failures that make me think is not doable in this distribution.
> >
> > Would sawfish still work without rep-gtk? What would I be missing without it?
> >
> > thanks,
> >   Rodrigo
>
> .. Use sawfish 1.5.1, it uses rep-gtk 0.18x (0.18.6r2 is the latest and
> last), 1.5.2 only has one minor change in the Crux theme, doc updates
> and compatibility with rep-gtk 0.90.0, so you won't miss much when using
> 1.5.1 instead 1.5.2, though 1.5.2+/1.6.0+ will require rep-gtk 0.90.0
> and therefore gtk+2.12.
>
> But you may try installing gtk+2.12 (and co) from RedHats SRPMS, that
> should work.
>
> Without rep-gtk you miss: all menus and SawfishUI (SawfishConfig in
> 1.6.0), so this is kind of no-go.
>
> Chris