Maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:36:34 +0000:
> Am trying out PCLinuxOS 2007, and am quite impressed, but I've not been > able to find an e.g. RPM package for old Pan on PCLinuxOS, What about building it from source? Old-pan sources are still available. You'll probably have to check for and install a few dev packages, since you're on a binary distribution that presumably splits them out, and of course the usual dependencies, since you're building directly, bypassing the usual dependency checks of the distribution's packaging system, but that shouldn't be too difficult, if you read the documentation shipped in the tarball. I know it wasn't back when I was doing it on Mandrake, before I switched to Gentoo (which being source based, has rather fewer of these problems, and one can always dredge up the old version's emerge scripts from the VCS if they aren't in the distributed tree any longer). Alternatively, you may be able to find other old RPMs, one of which might work, using rpmfind or the like. I used to use them all the time back on Mandrake, altho it was usually for newer packages rather than older. Or, if there's a packager listed on pan.rebelbase for your distribution of choice, contact them directly and see what they suggest. They may have old versions available or be able to build them with little trouble, and even if not, they're likely to be able to give you a much more accurate step-by-step specific to your distribution and version, of what you'll need to install before doing the build yourself. -- 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
