Will Nvu work in RedHat 9

[Chris A Czerwinski]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:43, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

Thanks Guys... for the words of encouragement.

I'll do a little more reading up in Fedora and set up some time next 
week for this exercise before I decide ...

1. A fresh Install and copy the files from backup  or 
2. Copy source and build     or
3. Maybe I'll even resurrect my old 40GB HD and install Fedora Core 2 
   and attach my present HD as a slave and use it so I don't have to 
   copy or restore from backup - just clean up the second HD.

Option 3 looks a little less work, but I never had the luxury of a 
second HD what should I be careful of. Any insights.  

Chris Cz