[tlug] CentOS and sakura

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

Yesterday, I mentioned that sakura seemed to be difficult to get working
with CentOS. 

I solved it, so figured I'd post this for any CentOS users.

Firstly, I approached it in a somewhat haphapzard fashion.  You will
need gtk2-devel and vte-devel.

You also need cmake, which is what caused me some problems. I first
tried an rpm that was for RHEL 64 bit but it didn't install properly,
giving me an error message.  When a quick google didn't give me the
answer, I tried an older version that I found at 

http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/50/others/20071026

This installed, but when I tried to run it (installing sakura is done
with cmake . && make && make install, with su or sudo only being used
for the install) I got the error, when running cmake .  that it couldn't
locate pkg-config, which was installed. 

So, I then tried again with the first rpm I'd used at 

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/

This time, doing rpm -Uvh successfully upgraded cmake.  Then, I was
easily able to install sakura. 

Hopefully, this helps someone.  (I have various other compiling tools,
which aren't installed in the default, on there as well, such as the
usual gcc, gcc-c++, make, kernel-devel and friends.)

The documentation, such as it is, can be found in the INSTALL file in
the tarball.  There's no real sample config file, but the keyboard
shortcuts are similar to gnome-terminal, ctl+shift+t for a new tab,
ctl+shift+w to close a tab, alt and the arrow keys navigate between the
tabs. 

I haven't found a way to set the background color without the
mouse--right click, and it brings up a menu.  

Josh if you see this, can you post a sample config?  


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