Re: FVWM: Question regarding fvwm releases
2009/10/30 Gregg Tomas java_gr...@yahoo.com: To Whom It May Concern: Heh -- I bet this is a question in a corporate environment, We are transitioning to Red Hat EL5 from RHEL 4. We are currently using fvwm version fvwm-2.4.19-0.i386 on RHEL4. When we tried to install it on our RHEL5 box it was referring to a library called /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4. I did search in our /usr/lib directory and found that we have libreadline.so.5. We want to use an upgraded stable version of fvwm which references our /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5, which stable version of fvwm do we use? How are you doing this? It reads as though you're installing the version of FVWM from RHEL4 on your new and shiny and no doubt wonderful RHEL5. If that's the case, then it won't work as most distros deprecated libreadline4 a long time ago -- indeed, FVWM here at upstream looks for libreadline5. FVWM 2.4.20 is the version of FVWM you'd want, and even then I'd still suggest FVWM 2.5.28 -- unstable is quite stable in this regard. ISTR that the SPEC files which we distribute as part of FVWM (which would have been updated as part of FVWM 2.5.X) were updated recently -- i.e., within the last year. Perhaps you'd have better luck trying to compile FVWM yourself? -- Thomas Adam
Re: FVWM: Question regarding fvwm releases
[ Adding fvwm@ back on the Cc list -- I don't do private FVWM consultancy. ] 2009/10/30 Gregg Tomas java_gr...@yahoo.com: Thank you Thomas for replying. Promptly I might add! :-) Please be patient, I am a newbie myself. A few colleagues and now you had suggested to recompile FVWM myself because I will better luck. Why? If I have downloaded the fvwm-2.5.27-1.i386.rpm already, couldn't I just run it installed as is? Assuming the dependencies match and you don't enter into dependency hell, yes you could. And I stress the *dependency hell* part clearly since that's likely with DeadHat, where God knows what dependencies this package might have. Note though what I told you originally: FVWM 2.5.28 was the last unstable release, which you'd benefit from, above and beyond what's in 2.5.27, obviously. Again, why not compile that yourself? Using make rpm-dist might help you here. -- Thomas Adam
