A little bit off topic but noteworthy:
Helixcode's GNOME prerelease is awesome. The performance enhancement you
see with gdkpixbuf alone over "October GNOME" is well worth the upgrade to
this GNOME distribution.
Sincerely,
William F. Helke
-----Original Message-----
From: James Henstridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:08 PM
To: Kevin Donnelly
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: libxml
You can either configure the new version with:
./configure --prefix=/usr
so that it installs over the top of the old version. Alternatively,
HelixCode has libxml and libxmld RPMs of version 1.8.6 that should be
compatible with SuSE. You could grab them there:
http://www.helixcode.com/
James.
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm interested in using Dia, but as someone relatively new to Linux, I'm
> having a bit of difficulty gluing all the bits together (and that's even
> before I launch the program!). Can anyone point me in the right
direction?
>
> I'm using SuSE 6.3, and the libxml and libxmld (the developer package)
> versions with it are 1.7.3. When I run configure on Dia, it says that
> libxml must be at least v1.8.5. I therefore downloaded libxml v1.8.6 from
> Gnome, and compiled it.
>
> It has installed itself into /usr/local/lib, whereas SuSE put the v1.7.3
> into /usr/lib. I therefore tried changing the symbolic links in /usr/lib
> for libxml.so and libxml.so.1 to point to the new v1.8.6 in
/usr/local/lib,
> but doing configure on Dia still produces the same message that libxml
must
> be at least v1.8.5.
>
> Should I uninstall v1.7.3 completely? Should I reinstall v1.8.6, but
force
> it to go into /usr/lib? And if so, how do I do that? And what about
> libxmld - I cannot find that anywhere on the Gnome site, but presumably it
> will be needed to compile Dia? Does anyone know its whereabouts? I am
> assuming I need v1.8.6 of it as well - is that correct?
>
> Yes, I suppose I should just try all these things and see what happens,
but
> I've spent 3 hours on this so far, and work beckons, so any pointers would
> be welcome.
>
> Can I suggest that it might be a good idea to hold copies of the latest
> sources of these required packages on the Dia site? This would mean that
> everything could be downloaded in one go, rather than have to go wandering
> about looking for things. If there is a problem with webspace or
anything,
> I would be very happy to offer space at www.linuxwales.com, which is a
> practical-type thing we are putting together (it's just in draft form at
the
> minute!) to tell people how they can load Linux, and use a variety of
> specific programs with it. Once (if!) I get Dia running, that will be
going
> on there as a how-to.
>
> Best wishes, and thanks,
>
>
> Kevin Donnelly
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