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Re: Building FVWM 2.5.7 for Debian testing / Gnome 2



On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:45:07PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> I want to build the latest FVWM development version (2.5.7) for Debian
> testing with support for Gnome 2.
> 
> I've got the configure almost working with everything I want properly
> configured, except that it can't find gnome-config so it can't enable
> Gnome support.  I've looked and the only place that seems to be defined
> is in libgnome-devel.
> 
> Well, I have the libgnome2-devel package installed, but there's no
> gnome-config in there so the FVWM configuration doesn't recognize that
> it's installed.
> 
> I tried to install libgnome-devel but it complains:
> 
>   Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>     libgnome-dev: Depends: libdb3-dev but it is not going to be installed
>   E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> So... what next?  Any ideas where can I find a gnome-config for Gnome 2?

Try apt-get install libdb3-dev. It'll probably fail, but at least
apt-get will tell you why and then you'll know why libdb3-dev 'is not
going to be installed'.

David



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