Stephen,
Thanks for the good tip. I need to use a relatively stock version of Red Hat
Enterprise 3, so I looked for an older version of meld. 0.9.5 is the newest
version that still works. I'm very happy with it.
Here are instructions in case anyone is interested:
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How to install meld (GUI diff tool) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 7
Full description & screenshots of Meld are at:
http://meld.sourceforge.net/
Download gnome-python2-gconf from:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gnome-python2-gconf
Download meld 0.9.5 from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/0.9/
(0.9.6+ does not run on my workstation)
su
rpm -q gnome-python2
gnome-python2-1.99.14-5
rpm -q gnome-python2-gconf
package gnome-python2-gconf is not installed
rpm -ivh gnome-python2-gconf-1.99.14-5.i386.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:gnome-python2-gconf ###########################################
[100%]
tar -xzvf meld-0.9.5.tar.gz
cd meld-0.9.5
cat INSTALL
make prefix=/usr/local install
(Some errors. I ignored them.)
ls -l /usr/local/bin/meld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2321 Aug 11 10:24 /usr/local/bin/meld
exit
(you're done)
meld file_1 file_2
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