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Re: gEDA-user: gEDA install on SuSE 9.3 -- what am I missing?

Stuart, thanks for your reply. Actually, I'm starting out with a fresh installation of SuSE 9.3.

An example of what I'm talking about is wxGTK, which SuSE's package manager (YaST2) insists is installed. Yet the gEDA installer doesn't detect the gtk-config file. So, I'm thinking the installer isn't looking in the right place, but I can't figure out what place that is.

Then, when I try to install a package by hand, I get noise from ./configure that it can't find glib-config, etc. After going back and forth in this effort, I got the impression Novell made some unilateral moves with SuSE, starting with 9.x, regarding obsolescence of gtk+ 1.x and such. I hope I'm wrong.

Is there anyone who was successful with a SuSE 9.x installation of gEDA?

Thanks,
Marshall

Stuart Brorson wrote:

Ummmm, which installed packages are you referring to?

If you mean the required system executables (or packages including
executables) like guile, wxGTK, etc, then the installer looks for the
packages by executing one of the associated commands
(e.g. guile-config).  In this case, the installer finds the packages
as long as the executable lives in your normal $PATH.

If you mean a required system header file (readline.h), then I believe
that the installer looks in /usr and /usr/local.  SuSE likes to put
stuff in the non-standard /opt hierarchy, which can cause some
confusion for some packages.  (I have included searching in /opt for
some, but perhaps not all, packages.)

My advice:  I have heard rumors that SuSE9.3 includes all required
packages, so you should just upgrade to SuSE9.3 if possible.  SuSE9.0
and 9.1 were total nightmares, IIRC, and should be avoided since they
didn't come with the required header files for lots of things.

Stuart--