[wplug] Package grief
Mark Dalrymple
wplug at badgertronics.com
Wed Oct 10 14:11:07 EDT 2001
> 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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