Hi Pat & others, Thanks again Pat for your reply.
I understand that the ...i586... files should be OK to install on my system. You suggested in your previous post that I might need to rebuild the .rpm files myself to get them to install. I don't know how to do this - and am slightly surprised that this should be necessary - Suse is a fairly common distribution - or so I thought :(. To conclude, then, when I try to install the rpm files from Sourceforge, I get a list of errors. These suggest that ...so... files are missing although the ...so... files are included in the .rpm files. I don't see a way in which I can get Lesstif to run on my system. I am sorry but see no choice but to give up. Thanks for trying to help. Lotte -------------------------------------- Quoting Patrice Dumas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:17:34PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi Pat, >> Thanks again for your quick - and comprehensive - reply. >> >> So I should be OK to run i586 files then? > Yes. > >> I'm sorry my error messages seem strange to you too :( > > Not strange... > >> The rpm files were downloaded from Sourceforge, and one of the >> platforms they should run on is Suse. > > They certainly cannot run on a fedora or mandriva platform since > the virtual provides are not existing on those platforms. > >> The error messages I get seem to suggest that the .so. files I am >> missing are not included in the rpms. If they're not, what would your >> advise be? > > They are included in the rpm. But development files are also included > so other development packages need to be installed along, as I said in > my previous post. > >> Yes, it probably is surprising that Motif or LessTif is not included >> in Suse. I'm no expert, but know from other Suse users that I need to >> install it separately. You're right, my distro's a few years old - but >> it should still run (it's not microsoft). > > I am a free software enthousiast and I dislike microsoft for many > reasons, but I have to disagree on this, microsoft keeps binary > compatibility much better than linux distros do. > > -- > Pat > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Lesstif-discuss mailing list > Lesstif-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lesstif-discuss > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Lesstif-discuss mailing list Lesstif-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lesstif-discuss
