Re: Help with compiling bonobo please.

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Antony Stace wrote:

> Hi Folks
> 
> I just downloaded bonobo-0.26 and am having problems installing it.  I
> unpacked it and ran the configure script and got the error
> 
> [snip]
> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for dcgettext... yes
> checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
> checking for catalogs to be installed...  ca da de el en_GB es fi fr
> ga gl hu it ja ko nl no pl pt_BR ro ru sl sv uk wa tr
> checking ORBit version... 0.5.1
> configure: error: ORBit 0.5.3 or later required   -(1)
> [snip]
> 
> seeing this error I then proceeded to download version 5.4 of ORBit,
> I unpacked this, compiled it and then ran make install.  A swag of new
> files ended up in /usr/local in various places.  I then ran  the
> configure script for bonobo again only to get the same error (1)
> again.  It seems that the bonobo configure script is looking at
> 
> /usr/bin/orbit-config
> 
> to get the version number of bonobo.  I Am not sure what to do as I
> don't want to destroy my system.  In the configure script for ORBit I
> see

orbit is probably installed as an RPM on your system.  Do an "rpm -e" of
the orbit package before doing the make install of the new version.

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company