Problems installing Lesstif - Giving up

Hi Pat & others,

Thanks again Pat for your reply.

I understand that the ...i586... files should be OK to install on my system.

You suggested in your previous post that I might need to rebuild the  
.rpm files myself to get them to install. I don't know how to do this  
- and am slightly surprised that this should be necessary - Suse is a  
fairly common distribution - or so I thought :(.

To conclude, then, when I try to install the rpm files from  
Sourceforge, I get a list of errors. These suggest that ...so... files  
are missing although the ...so... files are included in the .rpm files.

I don't see a way in which I can get Lesstif to run on my system. I am  
sorry but see no choice but to give up.

Thanks for trying to help.

Lotte

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Quoting Patrice Dumas <[email protected]>:

> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:17:34PM +1100, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi Pat,
>> Thanks again for your quick - and comprehensive - reply.
>>
>> So I should be OK to run i586 files then?
> Yes.
>
>> I'm sorry my error messages seem strange to you too :(
>
> Not strange...
>
>> The rpm files were downloaded from Sourceforge, and one of the
>> platforms they should run on is Suse.
>
> They certainly cannot run on a fedora or mandriva platform since
> the virtual provides are not existing on those platforms.
>
>> The error messages I get seem to suggest that the .so. files I am
>> missing are not included in the rpms. If they're not, what would your
>> advise be?
>
> They are included in the rpm. But development files are also included
> so other development packages need to be installed along, as I said in
> my previous post.
>
>> Yes, it probably is surprising that Motif or LessTif is not included
>> in Suse. I'm no expert, but know from other Suse users that I need to
>> install it separately. You're right, my distro's a few years old - but
>> it should still run (it's not microsoft).
>
> I am a free software enthousiast and I dislike microsoft for many
> reasons, but I have to disagree on this, microsoft keeps binary
> compatibility much better than linux distros do.
>
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> Pat
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