problems with 1.6.4 (fwd)

[Dale Alspach]

>On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 21:49, Paul Kinzelman wrote:
>> OK, how like I said, I've downloaded probably about 10
>> rpms now and they're like spagetti. How about clearly
>> listing what's needed on the web page and in what order.
>> You guys could probably describe what's needed in a
>> few minutes and save lots of your potential fans hours.

>It's pretty clearly listed: we need an up-to-date release of 
Gnome-1.4.

>Stop trying to crawl rpmfind.  I have never seen anything but headaches
>come from trying to piece together things one library file at a time. 
>All you have to do is install a complete Gnome development system from 
a
>single source, like Ximian or the Gnome Packaging Project. 

>On the subject of rpmfind: 

>I can't understand why you would just go out, grab a package off some
>random system, and install it as root.  If there haven't been any
>trojans or worms spread by this, there will be soon.  Get your software
>from a single source!

>b.g.

This might work if one has lots of disk space, but not all of us do. I
tried Ximian redcarpet once. It behaves as if resources are unlimited. 
It
proceeded to build a subdirectory of /var, filled it completely and
then died leaving detritus. The only good thing was that the rpm's
I needed were left in /var and I was able to add the ones needed one at 
a time
 until gnucash would install.  One really annoying thing about Ximian
 is that they don't tell you where the rpm's are located. They try to
 force you to use redcarpet. 

I have also used rpmfind without problems many times. For gnucash and
redhat the required libraries are almost never there though.

Dale Alspach