Re: [Help-gnunet] GNUnet-0.5.5 with libextractor dependency?

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Thursday 11 September 2003 01:24 pm, Marcos D. Marado Torres wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> In http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download.php3 we can read:
>
> System Requirements
>
> * GNU/Linux, Solaris (>= 8), FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD.
> # Optional:  libextractor (>= 0.2.5)
>
> , but if we try ti install GNUnet from the package GNUnet-0.5.5-0.i386.rpm
> we see:
>
> # urpmi GNUnet-0.5.5-0.i386.rpm
> installing GNUnet-0.5.5-0.i386.rpm
>
> Installation failed:
>         libextractor >= 0.2.5 is needed by GNUnet-0.5.5-0
>         libextractor.so.0 is needed by GNUnet-0.5.5-0
>
> . Shouldn't libextractor be optional?

Well, it is 'optional' if you compile from source.  For binary packages, it is 
either required or not used.  It is recommended for binary packages to 
require it (by building the package with libextractor).  But you are right in 
that the documentation should reflect this.

Christian
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