Re: [TCLUG:15891] GTK+ and RPM

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

such is the wonderfull life of debian, things in the right -dev packages,
in the right spot, when you need it.. all via apt-get :)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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 "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>         yeah, RPMs are there primarily to keep you from shooting yourself in
> the foot...unfortunately, they often keep you from shooting *anything else*.
>         my example:
>         I wanted to compile the GTKSee image viewer. it needs libjpeg,
> libtiff, and libpng, to support those formats (otherwise it just displays
> gifs). ./configure doesn't find those. 
> so i make sure I have the RPMS for them installed.
> ./configure still can't find the libraries.
> "OH!" i think, and remember that RedSmack separates the RPMS into -devel
> packages,         for the files you need if you want to compile against
> those libraries.
> so I DL (thanks Real-Time!) the -devel versions of those libraries and
> install them.
> ./configure *still* can't find the libraries to compile against. ;(
> so I s**tcan the whole idea and look elsewhere for image viewers.
> maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place, and the ./configure is screwed
> up; but I've seen RPMS put stuff in not-quite-expected places before, so
> it's easy to blame them. :)
> 
> on a somewhat different note:
> www.compupic.com has a very cool image (and text document!) management
> product (tho it is 'backdoor payware'... it's free in theory, but if you
> ever look at a .gif file, you have to pay them a license fee after 30 days,
> because of the Unisys patent); too bad it's a CPU hog. ;(
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave. 
> Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN	
> carls@agritech.com      (763) 682-1091
> 
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