Re: [glade--]how to install glademm on RHL9

Susumu Yoshida schrieb:
> Thank for your reply again.
> I am really sorry that I annoy you with an unfamiliar distribution.

Not that annoying to be sure.

>>If your linux distribution cannot give you automatic dependancy 
>>resolution (which I clearly doubt, given that RH/fedora still has 
>>users), you should consider a decent distribution. Perhaps apt-rpm is 
>>the correct solution for you.
> 
> 
> According to you, I installed apt-rpm and tried again but failed.

Oh, you did not fail. It gave you a decent error message:

> nana:/home/susumu/SRC# apt-get install libsigc++-devel
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> libsigc++-devel is already the newest version.

Perhaps this is libsigc++-1.0 which is the old one for gtkmm1. This used 
to be called libsigc++ (without a version number). Or ... I heard 
_rumors_ that redhat/fedora had made some debatable decisions to give 
incompatible packages the same (but shorter) name. Perhaps sigc++ 1.2 is 
called libsigc++, too and you got the wrong one.

> nana:/home/susumu/SRC# apt-get install gtkmm2
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gtkmm2: Depends: libsigc-1.2.so.5
> E: Broken packages

> See? The newest version of both libsigc++ and libsigc++-devel are
> already installed on my machine but when I try to "apt-get install gtkmm2",
> it says "libsigc-1.2 is UNMET".
> Does it make sense? 

Yes. Somewhat. It looks like you mixed packages from different 
incompatible sources. Or apt-rpm can not live to its expectations ;-)

> 
> You say
> 
> 
>>Shocked and glad to not _had_ to compile gtkmm myself for several years
> 
> 
> but is it much easier to use gtkmm on Debian (which is
>  your distribution,right?) ?

Debian is my distribution and while it has different issues (sometimes 
transitions take a long time which is mostly due to decisions of the 
people involved or lack of maintainer's spare time) I grew really fond 
of its package management.

The gnome 2.4 situation in sid (unstable) is really good. Sarge 
(testing) is slowly getting there and woody (stable) is hopelessly frozen.

But fedora should not be a bad choice either (from what I have heard).

    Christof