Will Nvu work in RedHat 9
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Nov 22 18:23:12 UTC 2004
Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:43, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>>Charles R. Dennett wrote:
>>
>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>Charles R. Dennett wrote:
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>>>>>Chris A Czerwinski said:
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>>>>>>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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>>- 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.
3 is probably the easiest, but also the most clunky. A backup of your
current files to RELIABLE media, a fresh install and a restoration is
the cleanest method but also the most work.
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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
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