If your Linux has a package manager that installs the dependencies compiled against the other libraries and kernel on your system, I'd use it. I wouldn't depend on the tar inside of a .deb to be good for you -- you'll never know where the problems are if by chance it should almost work.
It's a long slog, but I'd build from source, every library my distro doesn't provide. (and build shoes from source). Then you'll know what you've got. My 2 cents. On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:29 -0700, Josh Davidson wrote: > I'm trying to set up Shoes on a version of Linux other than Ubuntu. > Currently I am looking at the ReadMe which explains what Ubuntu packages > need to be installed in order for Shoes to run. > > My problem now is libraries depending on Libraries. For example, this is > a page listing the dependencies of just one library that is required. > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libpango1.0-dev > > Would I need to go through and get every dependency for it to work? > Also, I am just extracting the deb and removing the tgz, then I install > with that. Will that work or will there be Debian only stuff in some? > > -Zoasterboy
