Will Nvu work in RedHat 9
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Sat Nov 20 00:43:10 UTC 2004
Charles R. Dennett wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>>Charles R. Dennett wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Chris A Czerwinski said:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I inherited a Web Site that uses Dreamweaver, which I use on my XP and I
>>>>am searching for something similar to use in Linux RedHat9 and someone
>>>>suggested Nvu. I physically swap Hard Drives for my Linux and restart my
>>>>OS - so Wine is not a solution.
>>>>
>>>>Nvu - A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well
>>>>as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and
>>>>Dreamweaver. Link: http://www.nvu.com/
>>>>
>>>>Will there be any problems - If I were to download Nvu's Fedora 2.0
>>>>version into RedHat 9?
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone tried it? Any other modules to watch out for and download?
>>>>
>>>>Or should I try the Tarball for Debian (k2.4) gcc/g++ 2.95.4 ?
>>>>
>>>>Any help is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, I run RH9 at home and downloaded the source for 0.40 a while ago and
>>>built it. Works fine for me for what little I use it. I don't recall
>>>running into any major problems building it. I seem to recall something I
>>>had to tweak but it seemed pretty simple to me at the time.
>>
>>
>>Could it have been editing the Makefile so "CC=gcc296" so it used the
>>older 2.96 C compiler?
>
>
>
> I take that back. When I got home I checked what I had in my download
> area. I did not have the source. I had two tarfiles. One was for
> fedora2. The other was named nvu-0.40-pc-linux-gnu.tar. It's this
> latter one I had untarred into the place I usually install stuff. (I
> typically install in either /usr or /usr/local and then put a link in
> /usr/local/bin pointing to the executable. Keeps the path short) So,
> it looks like I downloaded the tarball that was built on Linspire
> (Debian k2.4) and it worked on my RH9 system.
>
> So, give the Debian tarball a shot. It just might work.
Ah. I usually download to /usr/download, move tarballs, etc. to
/usr/xxx and build from there.
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