[R] gnomeGUI installation

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:01 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Daniel Pick wrote:
> 
> >   I have successfully downloaded the sources and built R as a shared
> > library on a Red Hat Enterprise Level 3 box.  I am now trying to build the
> > GNOME GUI, but configure is barfing on glade.  According to the system
> > logs, the RPM for libglade2-devel-2.0.1-3.x86_64 is installed, but in
> > /usr/bin, where gnomeGUI configure is looking, what's there is
> > libglade-convert.  How do I fix this?
> 
> By reading the manual.  In the R-admin manual it says
> 
> `Please check you have all the requirements.  You need at least the
> following packages or later installed:
> 
> audiofile-0.2.1
> esound-0.2.23
> glib-1.2.10
> gtk+-1.2.10
> imlib-1.9.10
> ORBit-0.5.12
> gnome-libs-1.4.1.2
> libxml-1.8.16
> libglade-0.17
> 
> ...
> 
> Remember that some package management systems (such as @acronym{RPM} and
> deb) make a distinction between the user version of a package and the
> developer version.  The latter usually has the same name but with the
> extension @samp{-devel} or @samp{-dev}.  If you use a pre-packaged
> version of @acronym{GNOME} then you must have the developer versions of
> the above packages in order to compile the R-GNOME console.'
> 
> My FC3 box has
> 
> gannet% rpm -qa | grep ^libglade
> libglade2-devel-2.4.0-5
> libglade-devel-0.17-15
> libglade2-2.4.0-5
> libglade-0.17-15
> 
> and note that libglade2[-devel] is NOT a later version of libglade (in the 
> same way that gtk2 is different from gtk).
> 
> AFAICS it is likely that /usr/bin/libglade-config is provided by 
> libglade-devel-0.17-15.


That is correct, subject of course to RPM version differences between
FC3/4 and RHEL3/4.  Using RPM, this can be confirmed with:

$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/libglade-config
libglade-devel-0.17-16

which is the output on FC4.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz