Re: Balsa and Redhat giving me gip and Re: characters (Umlaute)

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root pukruppa de>]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:16:37 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> I tried again  to install balsa 0.8.1 and had a close look at the
> error-messages:
> 
> 1) no file 	glib-config 	could be found
> 
>     	but I found a file called 	glib12-config	in the
right
> place. I soft-linked it to glib-config.
> 
> 2) no file 	gtk-config		could be found 
> 	but again there was 	gtk12-config	. I linked that too.
> 
> 3) no 	/dev/dsp	could be found. 
> 	This now cannot be good: I simply made one: 	# touch /dev/dsp
> 
> The Result: I have got a very unstable but running balsa. I hope there is
> someone out there who can really fix all that. /dev/dsp could mean an
audio-device of
> some sort, but many device-names were changed with the new FreeBSD Release.
> 
> Oh, my characters: Now I can read "Umlaute", but I cannot write them.
> 
> Uli.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:16:55 Nathan Clemons wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, paul lewis wrote:
> > 
> > > Some time ago, I posted a request for assistance with my Balsa
> > > installation. I had
> > > been having chronic problems with my underlying RH6.0 installation
> > > which were
> > > quite possibly contributing to Balsa's unstable behaviour on my
> > > system.
> > > 
> > > I subsaquently performed a reinstallation of RH6.0 which cleared a
> > > number of
> > > the underlying issues. However now I am unable to get Balsa to install
> > > from either
> > > the .cvs or .rpm versions.
> > > 
> > 
> > What's the error?
> > 
> > > When I install balsa0.8x using the rpm package the software will not
> > > start at all.
> > > if I run balsa from the terminal prompt it reports an error in shared
> > > libraries and
> > > complains that it is unable to find .balsarc. It shouldn't find the
> > > configuration file
> > > because this is the first time Balsa has tried to run on this machine.
> > > It should go
> > > into its configuration routine.
> > > 
> > 
> > Correct. Balsa has a very nice wizard to walk you through setting it up
> > for the first time.
> > 
> > > libPropList has been installed. But when trying to install balsa-0.8
> > > or balsa 0.9
> > > versions GnomeRPM complains of dependency errors for libPropList.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've noticed that if you install by hand, RPMs may not detect the presence
> > of something that is actually installed and working. This is why RPM has a
> > "nodeps" option to ignore dependancy checks.
> > 
> > > I have tried to install the .tar.gz versions both 0.8x and 0.9x but
> > > they both give
> > > errors during ./compile and complain of glib libries not being
> > > present. I know
> > > glib is present on the system since as the .compile helpfully tells me
> > > the libries
> > > are required by Gnome and Gnome is running fine.
> > > 
> > 
> > Please post the error. The problem may be that RH6.0 has an older version
> > of the glib libraries, and it can't find the newer ones which balsa may
> > very well need.
> > 
> > > Perhaps somebody can assist me to track this problem down and resolve
> > > it.
> > > 
> > 
> > If you're reporting a problem, symptoms are good. Actually cutting and
> > pasting the error helps even more, because we can then see precisely what
> > is going on.
> > 
> > I've got to get the newest version of Balsa running on my system... been
> > out of commission for a while and I'd like to get back into the swing of
> > things.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nathan P. Clemons                       "Peace favor your code."
> > nathan@windsofstorm.net                 ICQ: 2810688
> > (v) 401.725.6061			(f) 603.372.9737
> > 
> > 
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