On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:19:09 +0000
Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sorry Anders.  Can't help, but you should know that this seems to be a common 
>problem.  I have had similar messages with many other installs, in particular
> with packages from magazine cover disks.  The GLIB one has certainly come up.
> Nobody has yet put forward an explanation, let alone a fix, so it must be
> some kind of bug in the installation script, which I would guess would be propagated 
>from one script to another if a faulty script is used as a template.
> As far as I can recall there have been instances of a first time install 
> where configure looks for a pre-existing config script - not logical at all.
> That is why I feel it must be a bug.  I certainly never had the time to try
> and track it down.  I have completely lost patience with tarball installations.
> 
> Please let us know if you do fix your problem.

Yes, I fixed with the help of the person that suggested to force the installation of
glib and subsequently with GTK+ as well, which will be next thing you will encounter.

I personally don't mind compiling when I have the time for it, because that will make
it better for the computer.

What you need to is the following

install the rpm's for glib and gtk+ (the libgtk+ that is) then just compile the
sylpheed-package, it is possible that after you fix the above things it might be
possible to install the rpm, but I have not tried this

It is possible that it is a bug in the configuration script or perhaps that Mandrake 
8.2
doesn't install it if you do not put in Gnome.


/Anders


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