I started by upgrading to Mandriva version 10.2 and I use the Gnome desktop (2.8)

I am playing with audio files so I wanted to convert my wav files to MP3

I enjoy using audacity - it says I need LAME library libmp3lame.so I am unsure exactly what to load.

next I decided I would try GLAME
I downloaded glame-2.0.1
extract and run ./configure

it says I need guile
gtk+-2.0
glib-2.0
gobject-2.0
libgnomecanvas-2.0
libgnomeui-2.0
libgnome-2.0
I tried to load gtk+-2.0 and it said I required
glib atk and pango
when I tried to load glib it required gettext
I found gettext on the distribution disks and loaded it( it downloaed gaim-1.5.0-0.1
next install glib
I downloaded glib 2.6.6
extract and it installed fine
next install atk 1.9.0
it cannot find glibc-2.0 using pkg-config
I found the file glibc-2.0.pc for pkg-config in two locations
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/pkgconfig
I copied the file into /usr/lib/pkgconfig and now pkg-config will find it
I am using pkg-config 0.15.0
several other installed package files were copied so pkg-config can now find them

atk-1.9.0 now installs after the pkg-config problem

now when I try to install pango it is looking for fontconfig.pc
I have freetype 2.1.9 installed its file is freetype2.pc
I check the web and end up looking for xrender-0.8.3 and xft-2.1.1
xft now says I dont have X
where do I go to try to get this to work in any kind of fashion.


Wayne

Incredible.
All Mandriva users are definitely heroes, Gentoo and Debian users are (accordingly) shirkers. Haven't had such a struggle since I dropped RH (long time ago). Can it be true there is no package management available for Mandriva?!