[NBLUG/talk] Enlightenment on Redhat 9

Kyle Rankin kyle at nblug.org
Fri Oct 3 01:03:00 PDT 2003


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:46:02AM -0700, Daniel Kinon wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 	I've been trying for the last couple of days to install the
> enlightenment window manager rpm on my Redhat 9 box.  What I thought was
> progress turned out to be a dead end, is there any help you can offer? 
> Anyone who has actually tried this maybe?
> 
> According to documentation at
> http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/download.html
> 
> Enlightenment 0.16.5-1 requires IMLIB v1.9.14
> 	IMLIB in turn requires certain versions of graphic processing packages,
> GTK+ and Glib.  I checked using 'rpm -qa' for all of these prerequisites
> and it showed that I had atleast the required version if not better. 
> The only descrepency that my rpm query pulled up was my version of IMLIB
> which is 1.9.13-12.  I checked with Ximian Red-Carpet but it doesn't
> look like a newer version of IMLIB is available.
> 	I then went searching for an rpm on the internet but as of yet have
> been able to find no rpms, just tarballs.  At this point I just gave up,
> downloaded a tarball and compiled and installed it.  This seemed to
> appease the rpm install.
> 
> 	The next requirement was FNLIB 0.5 which doesn't seem to be available
> in rpm form so I downloaded the tarball and installed that.  However,
> after doing so, the enlightenment rpm still complained about not being
> able to find FNLIB.  The only other requirement is FreeType 1.3.1 which
> I have, so that souldn't be a problem.  But after all this I don't know
> what to do.  Any ideas?
> 
> -Sorry for the lengthy explanation but I figured the whole story would
> answer alot of easily answered questions.
> 
> -Dan
> 

There's a long soap-opera-esque past with regards to RedHat and
enlightenment's relationship, but suffice to say that I'm not surprised
that it isn't easy to get it set up on Redhat 9.

That aside, there is still development going on (at a snail's pace) for
enlightenment, even the E16 version that ou would want.  You can grab any
rpms or source you would need here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2

This page also includes the fnlib 0.5 rpm and should have any other files
you might need.

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