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 totally outdated; current versions are:
> 
> librep 0.90.5 (0.90.6 in HEAD)
> rep-gtk 0.90.2 (0.90.3 in HEAD)
> sawfish 1.6.2 (1.6.3 in HEAD)
> sawfish-pager 0.7.3 (0.7.4 in HEAD)
> 
> 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.
> 
> So you may start with trying our recent (and compatible) releases.

Update: finally got it installed from the git repositories.  gtk-rep
seemed to be looking for the librep libraries everywhere except the
right place (/usr/local/lib/), but that was easily resolvable.
Compiled and checkinstalled nicely.  I now have a nice Sawfish system
again. :)

Cheers.
Grant.

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