xfce4 on Suse 81

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Andreas Ott wrote:
> If you want to be unfriendly feel free.

He wasn't being unfriendly, he was being honest.  Your queries indicate
that you have little or no experiencce building software, especially
software that is in a alpha or beta state.

>
> the homepage it says:
> Building the modules should be a simple matter of typing.
>
> Ok sorry I might be too stupid for typing but don't you think this should
> run with major distributions? Do you always need the devel packages when
> configering modules from source - well this is the first one for me! Ok fine
> but it could be stated somewhere, what do you think?

I think that you're way out of your league if you don't realize that devel
packages are needed to compile software.  This is newbie level stuff, and
quite honestly, its been asked, and documented countless times all over
usenet.  This is compounded by the fact that you couldn't even comprehend
the error that it was spewing, even though it was telling you how to fix
your problem.

XFCE4 is beta, maybe even alpha quality software.  If you expect that to
run on major distros, or any distro without some basic linux experience,
then you are int he wrong place.

>
> atze.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce-admin at moongroup.com [mailto:xfce-admin at moongroup.com]On
> Behalf Of Jasper Huijsmans
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: xfce at moongroup.com
> Subject: Re: xfce4 on Suse 81
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:22:48 +0100
> "Andreas Ott" <ott at abanet.ch> wrote:
>
> > installed glib2-devel!
> > changed PKG_CONFIG_PATH!
> >
> > now glib2 can be found cool...and there I go with my next problem, now
> > configure reports that gtk+-2.0 can not be found. Once again I'm sure
> > gtk is installed ;)
> >
> > Do I really have to install all the devel packages? Anything I should
> > know about the gtk version? I know they had problems with Red Hat but
> > with Suse?
> >
>
> I'm sorry if I sound a bit unfriendly, but are you sure you want to run
> a development version of xfce4? It seems you don't have very much
> experience with building applications from source.
>
> There is a good change you will find things not working as expected or
> even at all and we do expect people to be able to recover from that.
>
> On the other hand, it ususally works -- I haven't had any real problems
> with it for months -- so it's not as bad as I make it sound.
>
> Anyway, if you want to try, by all means do, but please remember this is
> development code and there are reasons it is not released yet.
>
> greetings,
> 	Jasper
>
>
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