errors (human mostly i bet)

[Calum]

okleydoke, i have some errors here, they are stupid basic errors, so when you are finished laughing at my ineptness, maybe you could post some comments...

i was trying to install audacity, which comes in a tar.gz file and has aconfigure file. So i am running ./configure and quite shortly it exits with this message:

checking for wx-config... no
configure: error: "Could not find wx-config: is wxWindows installed?"

okay, so i went and got wxGTK which is the program that is required here, to save time and effort, i got the rpm. I run it with rpm -Uhv wxGTK-2.2.9-0i386.rpm and i see this message:

error: failed dependencies:
     libpng.so.2 is needed by wxGTK-2.2.9-0

and so i try to install libpng from my mandrake CD even though i think it is already installed, it is an rpm of course, and i get this:

package libpng3-1.2.1-6mdk is already installed

am i on a neverending dependency wheel? or do i need a different version of libpng? or what? who knows... I also could not get SLab to install, but i have not written down the error messages so i will refrain from asking about that one right now...

Now, any idea where i should install openoffice, who should install it and how i can add it to the menu? i have 3 users on my system (not including root), none are grouped together and i want them all to be able to use all the openoffice stuff. Where can i install it (it asks me but does not give me a hint) and should i install it as root? or what? anybody installed it and if so what way is best?

Finally, i cannot find that discourse that we had not long ago about using dd, anybody remember where it was? or how about that sound one? i have just reinstalled, after a bizarre formatting blunder, and for some reason my sound server is not loading properly on startx, some little thing in that thread got it working last time, but i lost the thread. Maybe i'll look in the Lounge, stuff is usually there if i can't find it...

Thanks guys, and sorry for such a dumb post.

[voidmain]

It's not really that bad..

1) The wxGTK RPM that you downloaded was compiled against an older version of the libpng libraries than what you have. Not being familiar with wxGTK there are a couple of options. First check if there is a version of the wxGTK RPM that is compiled against your system. See http://www.rpmfind.net and search for "wxGTK".  It should bring up a list and hopefully has your version of Mandrake.  If it does not, get the latest wxGTK*.src.rpm and do a "rpm --rebuild wxGTK*.src.rpm" which will rebuild the binary RPMs but will be linked against your version of libpng (and any other libraries it needs from your system).  After the rebuild it should tell you where the resulting RPM files are and then just install them as you tried to do originally.

2)You want to do a "network install" of Openoffice. If you go to the OpenOffice.org site and look at the FAQ (I believe that's where I got the info) it will tell you how to do a "network install".  I believe the syntax is "./setup /net" (run as root). You will tell it to install in /opt/OpenOffice.org or wherever else you want the base install to be.  Then log on as each of the users and run setup out of that directory and do a workstation install.  It will place about 1MB of config info under each users home directory and should also add the menu items for them. Yep, here it is:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/main_faq_new_p3.html#16d

3) The thing you did to get your audio working was turn up the volume in "kmix". Now I don't understand how you relate "dd" to this issue but I would be more than happy to help you with that as well.

[ May 20, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Calum]

that's fsntastic, thanks for that, as always, i will try those out when i have the time, how cryptic of openoffice... who would have thought? et c. thanks for coming to my aid anyway.

I didn't relate dd and the sound thing together, just couldn't remember where to find them that's all, also, i opened up kmix after my reinstall and found that my sound card supposedly is not configured properly, so i was just going to go through all those steps again to see if i could pay attention to what the actual difference is.

[voidmain]

It's actually quite similar to a network install of MS Office...