More Linux Fun #21

[loosechanj]

All I wanted to do was compile the latest beta of Gaim. Damn, no ssl libraries.

Hey, this is CentOS! It's like RedHat! I'll give the RPM a shot! Damn, it wants pspell. Ok, find rpm for pspell. Gosh, that was easy. Well shit, pspell wants aspell. Find rpm for aspell. Not that hard. Ok. Well shit sherriff, aspell tells me a later version is installed![1]

Ok. I'm betting the problem is, knowing DeadRat, the dev headers aren't installed. By this point, I could give two shits and reboot into Windows.

Edit: Of course none of the devel stuff was installed. Finding that necessitated a trip to the install cd, and the website for updated RPMs (that wouldn't have been installed even if I had decided to throw in the kitchen sink pdx6... :-P). Still no joy, until I dug through config.log and noticed "libgcrypt not found".

I'm gonna go have a stroke now.

[1] Most of my dealings with RPMs end this way.

Comments

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

You should always do a full install when using Redhat, Fedora, or CentOS on your desktop.

I did. :-P

[pdx6.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't have all the -devel libraries, it isn't a full install. Doode.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Well, I fail to see how installing mysql would magically make the NSS includes appear.