NVU

[Les Mikesell]

Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> > I installed NVU on FC6. All seems to work fine. However, when I hit 
>> an > item in the help-menu nothing happens. I'd expect firefox to 
>> launch and > present the webpage. The same happens when I hit the 
>> "browse"-button: > again firefox doesn't launch.
>> > Googling and searching this list did not provide any clues.
>> > Maybe it is caused by the rpm, which was not originally built for 
>> fc6 > (but fc4 or 5). Does anyone know how to deal with this ?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Peter
>> >  
>> Did you actually install the FC4 or 5 rpm?  If so, is it possible to 
>> get the source RPM and build it for FC6 that might fix the problem.
>>   
> Rebuilding the package from srpm is a possibility indeed, but
> - I am not a skilled rpm-builder. As a matter of fact I never did this 
> before. However one could give it a try.
> - Obtaining the srpm is not going to be easy.
> Thanks for your answer anyway.
> Peter

Wherever you found the binary rpm should also have the src rpm 
available.  There's a 1.0.0.1 for fc4 here:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=nvu
You'd have a fair chance if you download that and run
rpmbuild --rebuild nvu-1.0-0.1.src.rpm
then look under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ for the binary it builds.

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