Re: Compiling Galeon--SOLVED!
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:37:44PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> I've finally gotten galeon to compile, and there was at least one other
> person who was having difficulty with it, so I'm posting what I did.
>
> First, there's a new version of Galeon (0.7.2) which goes with Mozilla
> M17; get it.
>
> If you haven't already, download the binary tarball of Mozilla M17
> (there doesn't seem to be a debian package of it yet). Extract it in
> /usr/local and rename the "package" directory it creates to "mozilla" so
> you'll have it installed in /usr/local/mozilla. (If you want it
> installed somewhere else, you'll probably need to use the environment
> variable as directed in Galeon's INSTALL file.)
>
> The quick way to get the headers, without having to
> download the 20MB mozilla source and sit through hours
> of compiling: download the mozilla development RPM from
> http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/RPMS/i386/mozilla-devel-M17-2.i386.rpm
> and make it a deb package with alien, then install the new deb with a
> dpkg -i command. That puts the mozilla headers in /usr/include/mozilla.
>
> After that, ./configure (no paramaters needed for configure), make, make
> install, and it should all work (hopefully). Worked fine for me this
> time. :)
>
Worked great, thanks for the tip.
jim
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