gEDA-user: Fedora Core 5 installation notes

[Peter TB Brett]

On Saturday 29 July 2006 20:02, Patrick Doyle wrote:

> Seriously... what do folks recommend for compiling and/or running the
> gEDA suite on an FC5 box?  I see that there are precompiled RPMs
> available, and I might go with that, at least to get started, but I
> anticipate, from having lurked on the list for a couple of weeks (gee,
> I wish I had tried this a couple of months ago so that I would have
> felt comfortable showing up on DJ's doorstep last weekend, oh well),
> that there are newer features in the CVS tree that I might want to
> try, so I would prefer to start from a source compile and be able to
> tweak it as needed.

Argh, I think I'm going to have to start a FAQ.

You need the following packages:

 - pkgconfig
 - fontconfig-devel
 - freetype-devel
 - glib2-devel
 - gtk2-devel
 - guile-devel
 - libpng-devel
 - zlib-devel

Also the usual core build tools (gcc, install, libtool, etc...).

Then it should Just Work. In general, being unable to build is a symptom of 
missing a '-devel' package somewhere.

Hope that helps,

Peter

P.S. I recommend the graphical package manager 'yumex' for all your 
hunting-for-package needs.

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