Gus Wirth wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
You might want to practice with the existing package. Set up a personal
build environment, install the source and then build the package. That
will help you understand how things work, and the source package for
Fedora may have patches which your source tarball doesn't include.
'Set up a personal build environment'? 'install the source'? I think
this is what I've done, or have been attempting to do. I've downloaded
the gnumeric-1.7.91.tar.bz2
<http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.7/gnumeric-1.7.91.tar.bz2>
package into its very own directory 'gnumeric-1.7.91'. From there, I
extracted the only item in the bz2, namely the gnumeric-1.7.91 directory
along with its contents. The directory I'm working from is
'~/unpack/gnumeric-1.7.91/gnumeric-1.7.91'. I did a cd into that
directory and have been performing ./configure from there.
And I don't quite grasp what you are saying 'and the source package for
Fedora may have patches ...'. 'source package from Fedora'?
No, please read the book. Right now you have no clue. It will take a
while for you to learn enough to do this. I highly recommend working
through the samples in the book. The only reason I know this stuff is
because I have read the book and have been rebuilding packages for
several years.
Is this one of the things a person needs to know to do linux system
admin work? I'm tempted to find the quickest path to a working gnumeric
1.7.91 install. But I at least have a workaround for the print problems
in 1.6.3, despite how inconvenient it is. And it *does* appeal to me to
learn system admin stuff. And at the moment, this problem helps with
motivation to learn.
My goal is to get gnumeric 1.7.91 installed and working. If I have to
learn more than I ever wanted to know about ./configure and ./make and
./make install, then so be it. I may forget parts of it later, but it
will be easier the next time I need to do it.
You have a long road ahead.
That's not quite so encouraging. :-\
;)
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