Re: emacs installation problem

2013-10-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Are you using yum insall emacs? And what are the dependency problems reported? Do you have some excludes set in your yum configurations? On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:27 AM, vivek chalotra vivekat...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, I am not able to install emacs in slc6.4..It is not resolving some

Stuck with compilations

2013-10-26 Thread Elio Fabri
Hi all, I am working on SL6.2 and experience almost always the same problem when trying to compile. configure tells some libraries can't be found, even if they are actually installed. Just an example: trying to compile audacity-src-2.0.4 I get: configure: error: Could not

Re: Stuck with compilations

2013-10-26 Thread Elio Fabri
On 10/26/2013 06:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Trying to compile means trying to compile from a tarball, I take it. OK Why not grab a relevant SRPM, if available? Even if you need to update some components with that, you should get a better handle on the needed components to do

Re: Stuck with compilations

2013-10-26 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
In a separate note you are using rpm -ivh [package].rpm. Please use yum install [package].rpm. yum tries very hard to resolve those dependencies for you, by looking them up in a database built from whatever public software repositories are enabled for your system. yum uses rpm, but is more

Re: Stuck with compilations

2013-10-26 Thread Earl Ramirez
Will you be interested in trying the rpm package for nux repo [0]? [0] http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6Workstation/i386/ On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 18:10 +0200, Elio Fabri wrote: Hi all, I am working on SL6.2 and experience almost always the same problem when trying to compile.