On Fri, 7 May 2010 20:57:26 +0200 Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote: > Am Fri, 7 May 2010 19:46:23 +0100 > schrieb Grant Sewell <[email protected]>: > > > > > I've installed the following from the Ubuntu repo's: > > sawfish 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1 > > sawfish-data 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1 > > sawfish-dbg 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1 > > sawfish-lisp-source 1:1.3.5.2-1ubuntu1 > > sawfish-merlin-ugliness 1.3.1-1 > > sawfish-pager 0.6a-3 > > sawfish-themes 0.12 > > librep9 0.90.2-1 > > rep-gtk 1:0.90.0-2 > > > > … Ubuntu doesn't support Sawfish and therefore the packages are > totally outdated
I know, it sucks. I used to love Sawfish's flexibility - after a brief encounter with KDE and Gnome in Mandrake 7+ I settled with Sawfish and kept it going for several years, eventually loosing touch with it in ~2003 when I installed Debian. Recent conversation on my local LUG (www.dcglug.org.uk) about alternative Window Managers has brought back some fond memories and renewed interest (on my part). > The problem is pretty simple: the installed versions of rep-gtk and > sawfish are incompatible. rep-gtk 0.90.0 requires atleast Sawfish > 1.5.2, so this is not really surprising me, though ugly for users > like you, who may think, it's our fault. I've been around Linux long enough to not point fingers and place blame quite so quickly. I was tempted to install the lot from source but when I tried to install librep from source it kept complaining about missing gmp... installed what I thought was the correct package from the Ubuntu repo's but it still complained at the ./configure stage. I didn't really want to then find gmp and install that from source too, and anything that relied on... I started with Debian to get away from dependency issues like this. > So you may start with trying our recent (and compatible) releases. I'll give it another shot after trying Mario's patch suggestion. Grant.
