FC-4 installation -

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 06:03 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Gavin:
> 
> Be aware that I am severely limited by this slow dial-up circuit.  I 
> have yum trying to install "XFCE Software Development"
> as I write this, it took  about an hour to do the preliminary stuff, 
> download headers, etc., and  now it's downloading 154M of packages which 
> might take ~10 hours or more on a good day! There is little hope of 
> completing this task in one session and I can probably do without the 
> capabilities it adds.  It will no doubt take a few sessions to complete 
> but  I'll give it a try.
> 
> I do appreciate the help I have received however.  If nothing else I 
> have become more proficient at using yum and yumex.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> BobG
> 

How did you install FC4 in the first instance?  If you have the disks
downloaded, bought, borrowed, or got with a magazine or whatever, then
all the developer tools you need, except the Xfce stuff, will be on
those disks.  I said as much my first reply (except drawing distinction
about the Xfce stuff) :-).  The other alternative is to use the
installer file from os-cillation.  Can't remember the link - you'll find
it on the Xfce site somewhere.  YMMV, but I couldn't get the installer
to work with my FC3 system, so that's why I didn't mention it before :-)

Gavin

(PS: I'm also on a dialup and persevered with downloading nearly 3G of
FC3 with an average download rate of 3kb/sec.  It took about two weeks)

> 
> Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:18 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>[root at box1 pkgconfig-0.15.0]# ./configure
> >>
> >>-------------------------snip--------------------
> >>
> >>checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> >>checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >>checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >>checking for gcc... no
> >>checking for cc... no
> >>configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
> >>
> >>Anu help appreciated.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Good to hear that you got Xfce installed by yum in the end, but you are
> >still left with a problem indicated by your error message that you first
> >posted when you were trying to build it from source.  The message says
> >it all, when you know what t look for - from the above you have not
> >installed the developer packages so you have a system with NO capacity
> >to build ANY package from source because there is no compiler on your
> >system. 
> >
> >To fix it, either go back to your disks and install the developer stuff
> >or do "yum grouplist" to see what groups you have installed and what is
> >available to install.  You will need at least "x86 Compatibility Arch
> >Development Support" & "X Software Development", and to build the Xfce
> >extras you will need "XFCE Software Development".  
> >
> >Grab more if you want to build lots of apps that aren't in the yum
> >repos, but don't be tempted to add lots of repos to get some packages
> >because it can really screw up your system if you end up having
> >incompatible repos.  Go with as few as possible to start.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Gavin.
> >
> >
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