Re: sawfish on red hat 5.3

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hi

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:44 -0400, Rodrigo Amestica wrote:
> 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?
no, try the below

  $ yum install gtk2-devel


> >>
> >> 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



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