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newbie wants to install libraries
by Parker, Bruce 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hello - I am a newcomer to linux (mandrake) and I am coding in C++. I am trying to get a comfortable setup together with a nice ide (anjuta) and a gui library (wxWindows using gtk). It is proving very tiresome. So far I have gathered that to get anjuta working and wxWindows I need recent versions of gtk (2.4.0). To install this however I need a recent version of Pango(whatever that is). To install Pango I need a recent versio of GLib (whatever that is). So I am trying to install GLib. So I download it, unzip it and tar it so that I have a glib-2.4.0 directory. I go inside it and do the usual: ./configure make make install (as root) And all is well. Only I notice that in /usr/include there remains an old directory called glib-2.0 and no newer 2.4.0 one. Now when I do the same with Pango the configure script tells me it finds only an old version of glib. I don't know how it works that out. So either the 2.4.0 hasn't installed or its presence is not felt by pango. The pango configure script suggests playing around with PKG_CONFIG (an apparently empty variable) to help pango find the version... At this point I do no know what to do, I have read and reread all the docs and looked at the configure script. Can someone help please as it is driving me mad - either directly or can you recommend somewhere on the web where that people love to help with problems like this? Thanks. Bruce

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main-admin ?
by Syd Hancock 24 May '04

24 May '04

Who is/are main-admin@ lists.alug.org.uk ? Syd

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Re: [ALUG] Software patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

On Monday 24 May 2004 10:47, you wrote: > Do you have a list of contact names and addresses for the local > parties/candidates? I'm simply thinking that you may well have done > a lot of the leg-work already. In which case it will be helpful to > avoid duplicating time and effort. If not then perhaps we can work > together on researching the info. I used the Web mail available on the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat Party sites, and the contacts I found on the other party sites were: enquiries(a)englishdemocrats.org.uk freedom(a)bnp.org.uk astern(a)ukip.org office(a)greenparty.org.uk It may be useful to find the email addresses of the individual candidates -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Software Patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

I have received an answer on the above subject from an assistant to Andrew Duff MEP, (which I did try forwarding to the list, but it awaits moderation). Which seems to entirely have missed the point as the reply was a Microsoft Attachment! -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Software Patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

Could you please tell me what your views of Software patents within Europe are? -- John Seago 19 Dakings Drift Halesworth Suffolk IP19 8TQ

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Software patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

Green party Candidates http://www.easterngreenparty.org.uk/gp-euro-cand-2004.html -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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software patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

Lib Dem Candidates Email addresses http://www.libdems.org.uk/index.cfm/page.euroresults/section.home -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Software patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

Here are the addresses of the Conservative Candidates for the East of England: ecnormington(a)aol.com gvanorden(a)europarl.eu.int sturdy(a)europarl.eu.int cbeazley(a)europarl.eu.int jonathan(a)morgan2004.com strongcpa(a)aol.com Please remember to remove any signature line, (as with mine below), which indicates which side of the question you are likely to be on! Initially we need to make them think, and give an honest answer. Later we can present the material Mark is preparing. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Software patents
by John Seago 24 May '04

24 May '04

Further to my previous post, here are the start points for the three largest parties. Others may be able to refine these to individuals Email addresses. http://www.conservatives.com/meps/candidates.cfm http://www.labour.org.uk/britainisworking/europeancandidates http://www.east.libdems.org/euromessage.htm -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Gentoo driving me mad
by Charles Garcia-Tobin 24 May '04

24 May '04

Hello all I'm doing a gentoo install on my shuttle cube, and I am gravitating towards utter lunacy! Basically the motherboard has all the nvidia nforce bits. Consequently until I can compile the kernel I can't put in the drivers for my NIC. No problem you download the universal livecd and uncompress stage1 and the the necessary bits should be there. Under usr/portage/distfiles I should have the necessary files to get me up to kernel level .... except there are a few minor things missing, you know little things like gcc or glibc, ... Ok so that's still only a minor problem, I can find out the list of missing files, reboot into windows, download them to a shared partition and off I go. Conviniently the bootstrap script that sets every up has a --fetchonly (-f) option will list all the missing packages. So I do bootstrap -f > /tmp/files oh bother most of the packages are coming out to stderr ok so I rephrase bootstrap -f 2>&1> /tmp/files It's still doing it I can't the list into /tmp/files aarrrrhhhh I'm not a bash expert but I thought the above syntax was ok So in short does anyone know how I can get this list of files before they put the straight jacket on me and I can't even type!! Cheers Charles

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