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Re: Irv - GTK2 and gmessage

• Posted by Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> Aug 18, 2004
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irv mullins wrote:
> 
> Jonas Temple wrote:
> > 
> > Irv,
> > 
> > I noticed when I tried the GTK2 package yesterday that it was looking for
> > gmessage.  I'm having trouble finding gmessage for RH9.  Any links or
> > suggestions?
> 
> Yes, you can get it from:
> <a
> href="http://linux.tucows.com/preview/61068.html">http://linux.tucows.com/preview/61068.html</a>
> although it is probably on your RH CD's somewhere as well.
> Another alternative is to use xmessage. You can change error.gtk 
> to call xmessage instead. I will add some code to do that automatically.
> 
> Regards,
> Irv
> 

Yes, I did find that link last night but...and I'm going to get a stern
lecture about this statement...but I'm one of those guys who likes to 
download a working binary package, not have to go through a lengthy
make/make install procedure.  I did that with ODBC on Linux because I 
had to and the 
configure/make took extremely long.  Of course, I'm running on a fairly 
old machine.  I got easily confused with the installation steps (I get
confused fairly easily  :) ) and when I was done the software that I wanted
to run via ODBC didn't work because the "make install" put the binaries in
a directory other than what the software was hard-coded to look in!
ARRRGGHHH!!!  To make it easier on myself, I used the up2date with RH9 and
downloaded the ODBC package in an RPM.  It was a slightly older version
than what I had compiled but it worked.

I guess what I'm trying to get to is I don't like the idea of having to
tell potential customers "Well, you'll have to download this .tar and
then compile and install the package"...blank stares like deer in 
headlights...  I'm by no means a Linux expert so maybe my perception of
this is somewhat off base.  I know most of the Linux people in the Eu 
community don't use RH but I like the idea that I can run up2date and 
after some time my system is updated.  I'm sure the other distros have
similar functions but RH is the depth of my experience.

Okay, let the lectures begin!!!!!!

Jonas