On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Suresh Govindachar wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried 3 ways to install "vim-with-everything" on Fedora Core 8, but failed: > > Attempt 1) vim-7.2.tar.bz2 - typing make resulted in the following error: > > [...] > checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! > You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. > Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.
Generally, to compile software on RPM-based distributions, you need to install '-dev' or '-devel' packages for things that are normally installed as binaries. So, you might have 'curses' or 'ncurses' installed, but you also need 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-dev' (I don't know the correct name). You'll probably need several such packages. The following is probably your easiest approach: > Matt Wozniski wrote on February 11th: > > > Or just "sudo apt-get build-dep vim" to get all of the dependencies > > needed to build the version that's in the repositories. In theory, > > that might not be all of the things you need to build a vim that > > you're ./configuring yourself, since it won't include headers needed > > for features that aren't compiled into vim-gnome. In practice, > > though, vim-gnome includes nearly all features, so that's not really a > > problem. At the very least, it's the best jumping off point, since > > the worst case is that you need to track down one or two more missing > > packages. > [...] > Attempt 2) Was unable to find vim-enhanced-7.2.315-1 fc8 rpm on the > internet. Seems unlikely to exist. Fedora 8 is pretty old. Latest vim-enhanced in the official repository looks to be 7.1.135-1 ( http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/) > Attempt 3) rpm -iv --test vim-enhanced-7.2.245-3.fc12.i686.rpm resulted in: > This is also unlikely to work without significant hassle. Between versions, RPM-based distributions tend to only work with a given version of the core libraries. > [...] > error: Failed dependencies: > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.11) is needed by > vim-enhanced-7.2.245-3.fc12.i686 In this case, it looks like Fedora 8 doesn't have the version of the GNU C library (GLIBC) that the Fedora 12 package would require. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
