7 ??????? 2000 06:46, Steve Wray ???????:
| I'm starting to become of the opinion that
| when one is installing distributions
| such as mandrake and redhat, one should pay close
| attention to software that one is *particularly* keen on.
you are right, indeed!
| One should *not* install these through rpm
| rather one should COMPILE FROM SOURCE!!!!!!
|
IMHO, problem is when SRPM is prepared not-correctly.
The best, to my mind, is to take Source RPMs and build binaries from them.
It's the easiest way, and you get "transportable" binary after all.
rpm --rebuild automatically makes a lot of work for you
(unpacking, ./configure, make, make install ... even cleaning disk after all;
why it just doesn't make fresh orange juice [orangesaft] while compiling?.. )
| I've had no end of troubles with (various bits of) KDE2
| and its next to impossible to update *just* those bits
| (eg kdemultimedia) without making a mess...
|
Yes, I agree with you.
This is not normal - to have 10 varaiations of KDE for one OS, Linux.
Problem is that many Linux distributions do not include necessary libraries,
or include *buggy* ones. Libpng 1.0.8 was buggy on SuSE and not working with
KDE 2.
Linux Mandrake 7.2 has Libpng 1.0.8 but KDE2 is working ok.
May be, it's because libpng is built into kdesupport? :-))
That's not good, to my mind.
If there is a system libpng, all programs from distribution (including KDE2)
should use system [shared] library.
| On a redhat 7 machine I forcibly removed all the kde packages
| and compiled the whole kde2 set from scratch.
|
| The result? BLISS!!!!!
Probably you used *final* source, KDE 2.0 release.
In September and beg. of October, KDE2 was not compiling for RedHat.
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