Getting NVU-0.70 for Fedora 3

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Shawn McCuan wrote:

> i installed using  - - no dep, and it seems to be working fine. Thanks 
> for all your help!
>
>
> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:36 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:38:31 -0500, Shawn McCuan <mccuan at wave3.org <mailto:mccuan at wave3.org>> wrote:
>>>  Hi,
>>>  
>>>  I'm wondering where I can find an RPM for NVU-0.70 for Fedora 3. Ive tried
>>> installing the fedora Core 2 version from nvu.com, but, it gives me an error
>>> stating that I must first install gtk+2, but, I don't know where to get that
>>> either. I have tried:
>>>  
>>>  yum install gtk
>>>                  gtk2
>>>                  gtk+2
>>>  
>>>  I'm fairly new to Linux, and I don't yet completely understand how to build
>>> from source, so, an RPM is preferred. 
>>>    
>>>  Thanks!
>>>
>>>  Shawn McCuan
>>>  mccuan at wave3.org <mailto:mccuan at wave3.org> 
>>
>>I don't see a Fedora Core 2 rpm for 0.7, but there is now an FC3 rpm
>>for 0.6.  You might try to download the spec file for 0.6 that they
>>have and use it with the SuSE src.rpm to rebuild it.  I earlier found
>>a Mandrake src.rpm and after editing the spec file some was able to
>>rebuild it for the x86_64 architecture.  The rpm didn't work perfectly
>>(a menu creation macro for post install doesn't work), but NVU seems
>>to work.
>>One of the changes I had to make to the spec file was to change the
>>gkt+2-devel dependency to gtk2-devel, so maybe you are seeing
>>something similar.  On FC3, the packages are called gtk2, and not
>>gtk+2, which the rpm seems to be expecting.
>>I may try rebuilding 0.7 with the given FC3 spec file.  If I have any
>>success, I'll let you know.
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
>>    
>>
You're welcome, just remember that --nodeps is not to be used lightly, 
only if you *REALLY* know you have the dependencies covered and the 
prime suspect could be a badly packaged rpm.
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