Re: [Pan-users] Problems installing on RH 7.1

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:12:25PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> I downloaded Red-Carpet and installed Ximian Desktop, but have been unable to 
> get Pan 12.x to run because of some failed dependencies. Why is it suggested 
> that installing Ximian will solve all the problems???
> 
> Trying to rebuild the RPM I get the following error:
> address@hidden john]# rpm --rebuild pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm
> Installing pan-0.12.0-1.src.rpm
> error: failed build dependencies:
>         glib2-devel >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>         gtk2-devel >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
>         libxml2-devel >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
> 
> Can someone KINDLY please tell me why we are requiring "snapshot" versions of 
> some libs??? Those were the only ones I could find.... Red-Carpet didn't 
> install new enough versions of those libs when it installed Ximian Desktop... 
> It really doesn't make a lot of sense to me to require "experimental" lib 
> files!

I don't have Ximian, so I can't speak to that.
But Pan doesn't require any snapshot versions of libraries:
All the dependencies you've listed are actual releases.
The "-devel" indicates that they're headers, etc. for doing
builds, not that they're unstable releases.

This is explained in the building Pan 0.12 HOWTO,
you need to go get those three libraries from rpmfind.

cheers,
Charles