Jeff Vian posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:54:43 -0500:
> I used pan regularly some time back and loved it. > > Today I decided to install the latest and try it again but it will not > install. > > My system is Athalon XP 3000+ with 1GB memory and plenty of drive space, > running Fedora Core 4 fully updated with gnome as my desktop of > preference. FC4 will almost certainly be running Gnome 2.x. > The first command does this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pan-0.11.4]$ ./configure [snip] That pan version number tells the story. That's the latest Gnome *1* version (which is still quite old, as Gnome 1 hasn't been current for some time, and neither is the Gnome 1 version). Naturally, the Gnome2 stuff doesn't work for it. Try PAN 0.14.2, latest full-stable, 0.14.2.91, latest released version (unstable, but over a year old and not /really/ unstable), or install from CVS if you want the newest "alpha" version, with some major changes (much better memory handling, for one), but also a few "interesting" bugs (but not too many). I'm running 0.14.2.91 installed from tarball, but there should be FC/RH RPMs for it, if you prefer. Note that RH/Fedora normally splits "development" lib packages from what you'd normally need to install a binary, the runtime binaries only. Lack of the Gnome-1-libs development package(s) may be why you are having troubles installing the Gnome-1 version from tarball (thus, compiled, not binary), even with the Gnome-1-libs binaries installed. However, as explained above, you probably don't want that old a version anyway, but rather, the GTK-2.x version (it no longer requires all of Gnome, just GTK+-2.x). If you install from tarball, you'll probably need the GTK+-2 development package(s) as well as the binary library packages, but it's possible you already have them installed. So, to sum up, try a PAN-0.14.2 or 0.14.2.91 version, using GTK+2, rather than the old Gnome-1 PAN-0.11.4. RPMs should be available, but if you choose to install from tarball, you may need the development library packages as well as the binary/runtime packages of the library dependencies. Of course, you should be able to install the old Gnome-1 PAN version if you want, but since you are running a modern distrib, FC4, unless you have some specific reason to want the old PAN version, you probably want the newer PAN, as well. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-devel
