[wplug] Package grief

[Weber, Larry A]

I used locate and found vga.h in my /usr/inlcude/asm directory.  I also
found that the file linux.trm was trying to include it, so I modified it
with the complete path to  vga.h.
Compilation continued and then exploded with over a dozen errors in
linux.trm (undelcared identifiers, structure members, and constants).  My
guess is that this vga.h is not the vga.h that linux.trm is looking for.

I'll try finding a binary but I would like to see if I can get the source to
compile.

My RH7.1 package manager usually works fine.  It gives me a very general
error message before it installs a package.  Of course it doesn't tell you
where it put it.  This is not too much of a problem if the package installs
an executable, but in this case the RPM only contained the source.  I wound
up using the command line version of RPM with -ivv to tell me where the
extracted files were going.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	wplug at badgertronics.com [SMTP:wplug at badgertronics.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:11 PM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	Re: [wplug] Package grief
> 
> 
> > Is it just the packages I am trying to install 
> > ...
> > This week's grief is being caused by Gnuplot.
> > ...
> > I downloaded the source
> 
> Why mess with the source?  I'm sure there are GnuPlot RPMs out there.
> Google shows some (but avoid the linuxppc ones).
> 
> With that out of the way...
> 
> > The build crashes when it cannot find vga.h.
> > vga.h was not included in the source package.
> 
> I'd try to find the vga.h - whether by 'locate', or using 
> find (e.g. find / -name vga.h -print), and then tweaking the makefile
> to find it.
> 
> 
> > (It really bothers me that when I had to install
> > Gnuplot on a Win98 system, it took less than a minute and is worked fine
> the
> > first time.)
> 
> Bet if you tried installing it from source i'd take longer :-) 
> Linux hasn't caught up yet in the ease of installation area.  From
> what I've seen of Debian's apt-get, it looks like the closest to
> Installation Nirvana.
> 
> A Package Management 101 would be a cool talk.
> 
> Cheers,
> ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com.  http://badgertronics.com
>   "in general, you should always explore career paths like 'rock star' or
>    'professional basketball player' before worrying about finding a cool
>    tech job"
>      -- Rzolf
> 
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