Re:tlug: Japanese versions of software

["Austin Kurahone" <a_downunder@example.com>]

Hi,

>I am also still having trouble with kterm/kinput2/canna since I >upgraded 
>to RH6.0 and installed those rpms from the vine distro which >is 
>essentially RH.  I wanted the enlightenment and then I wanted >Japanese or 
>i18n capability on top of that.
Ok, here's the deal with Canna on RH6.0
1)I doubt that the RPMs that come with Vine will work with Redhat 6.0. 
(glibc version difference along with a bunch of other things.)
2)Compiling Canna from the source will produce binaries that are broken 
(some of the dictionary tools are messed, yet again glibc 2.1.x issues)

If you really want to use canna with RH6.0, you can get binary RPMs from the 
following site:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.co.jp/pub/rh60j_prebeta1/RPMS/

These are the RH6.0 Japanization kit from Laser5.  AFAIK everything works 
OK, except for some strange reason netscape breaks because of a bug in glibc 
2.1.1 causing it to hang up everytime you try to save a file.  ALso the 
localisation is patchy at best, oh well. (For the record: These packages are 
about a month old, the current beta is much much better.)

3)If RPMs aren't your thing, I have patches that will fix canna, and also a 
SRPM for the Redhat6.0 canna package.

Yours,
Austin K. Kurahone

<PLUG>I've just finished Green Frog Linux 0.3a (Foggles), I'm going to be 
uploading it some time tomorrow with a Japanese compatibillity kit (Kon, 
jvim, canna, and mutt with the Japanese patches <- Nothing else to localise) 
following within the next few days.</PLUG>


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