walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:09:10 +0000:
> Perhaps start at pan.rebelbase.com and follow the link to 'downloads'. > Unfortunately, the last RPM for Mandriva seems to be quite old, 0.108. > There have been so many improvements since 0.108 that I would not > suggest trying it. > > On the other hand, there is a 0.117 for Suse, which should be enough to > give you a good idea. You should have no trouble running new and old > pans side-by-side because they use different directory names to store > their configs and data. I just rename the new pan executable to 'pan2' > so I can tell them apart. Back when I was on Mandrake, I'd often use Red Hat (which would now be Fedora) RPMs. Mandrake/Mandriva is supposed to be RH compatible, so the Fedora RPM is very likely to work and put stuff in the expected directories as if it were a Mandriva native RPM. The single exception at least back then was that one of the library package dependencies was libsomething on Mandrake and somethinglib on RH, IIRC, so it was a bit hard to tell which library I needed, but the Mandriva one had a provide for the RH name as well, so once installed, it worked just fine. The SuSE one may work, but I'd guess there's more likely to be a few more of those types of minor incompatibilities. > Compiling pan is truly trivial *if* you have all the necessary development > packages installed, but that is the part that trips up most beginners. > You can read more about compiling at the bottom of the downloads page > in the 'CVS' section. Exactly. Tracking all the -dev packages was a pain. That's one of the good things about Gentoo -- both by policy and in practice, since it's generally compiled on-site anyway, when you merge (install) something, you get all the headers and other stuff that most binary distributions split into -dev packages, so even if Gentoo doesn't provide a package for what you are doing and you have to compile it on your own, it's far simpler to do. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
