installing new packages on 64 bit RHE 5.4
Marti, Robert
RJM002 at shsu.edu
Wed Jan 13 18:29:01 UTC 2010
RHEL5 was closest to Fedora 6. I would build an rpm from the source code provided.
Rob Marti
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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:52 AM
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Subject: Re: installing new packages on 64 bit RHE 5.4
>>> I'm trying to install Dropbox on my system. Since Dropbox does not
>>> have
>>> an RPM for 64 bit RHE, I'm installing from the source code. Dropbox
>>> requires both
>>> libnautilus-extension-dev
>>> libnotify-dev
>>> Neither is installed and a search in package manager comes up empty.
>>> How
>>> do I find them?
>>
>> Earl:
>>
>> Two things...first, can you get the DropBox src.rpm? If so, you should
>> be
>> able to use rpmbuild to rebuild it as a 64bit rpm.
>>
>> Second, you can try to find the relevant RPMs for the libraries in
>> question at rpm.pbone.net...but try "devel" instead of "dev" if you're
>> going to do a package search.
>>
>
> There isn't a src.rpm, but there are rpms for FC9 and FC10. Is either of
> these compatible with RHE 5.4?
Most likely the F10 ones may be...if I recall, F9 was more akin to either
earlier RH5s or RH4.
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