Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Russell Gadd wrote: > Again, thanks. I've just completed an install of Squeeze now so will > try all this. Actually I'm using AMD64 again (same as my Lenny). > Thought of using X86 to be "safe" but I figured that if 64 bit > graphics work ok it shouldn't be an issue. Or is this too naive? I have b

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Russell Gadd
On 16 December 2010 17:53, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Hint: APT'S 'build-dep' makes this easy.  Since this is already in > Squeeze then if you were running squeeze you could install all of the > build dependencies for that version by using apt. > >  $ sudo apt-get build-dep hitori > Thanks, most us

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: > Russell Gadd wrote: > > I would like to compile a GTK+ application from source (hitori-0.2.5) > > so that I can play with the source code. I followed the instructions > > up to ./configure which reports missing packages: > > ... > > You need the development packages for these

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Russell Gadd
On 16 December 2010 08:41, Sven Joachim wrote: > (see above post) Thanks Sven, you have confirmed with useful detail the vague ideas I had. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Fwd: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Russell Gadd
On 16 December 2010 08:14,   wrote: > > > > One thing I may suggest is look into the use of virtual machines for > something like this. You can install and run the OS of your choosing in a > window ontop of your main system, > > This has the advantages of sandboxing your experiments, having

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread shawn wilson
> > Oricle's Virtual Box is a good simple to use Virtulization software if your interested. > Virtualbox would be a good start. Kvm would be better. Eats up less processor and I think they've got some memory sharing between Unixes.

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread debian
I would suggest also use virtual machine for test propose as sandbox, and you can always easy recover it from snapshots. Nowadays limitation with hardware is not so critical especially for linux/unix based OS not working with GUI. Read about XEN also. BR 16.12.2010 9:14, teddi...@tmo.blackberr

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-12-16 08:44 +0100, Russell Gadd wrote: > I would like to compile a GTK+ application from source (hitori-0.2.5) > so that I can play with the source code. I followed the instructions > up to ./configure which reports missing packages: > No package 'glib-2.0' found > No package 'gtk+-2.0' fo

Re: Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread teddieeb
Ressell Gadd said so I think I should start with a clean system. At present I use Lenny (AMD64) with a couple of backports (maybe they are part of the problem), although I do multiboot several OS's and I can install another easily. So I think I may install another OS just for this project (which

Which OS to install?

2010-12-16 Thread Russell Gadd
I would like to compile a GTK+ application from source (hitori-0.2.5) so that I can play with the source code. I followed the instructions up to ./configure which reports missing packages: No package 'glib-2.0' found No package 'gtk+-2.0' found No package 'gmodule-2.0' found No package 'cairo' foun