Bluefish install question

os400 · 12-13-2006, 08:25 AM

Last night I installed Bluefish on slack 10.2 via a tgz package. The install went smoothly. When I tried to run it from the command line, I got a message saying libgnomevsf-2.so.0 was not installed. I've tried without success in installing the Gnome library. According to the Bluefish homepage, libgnomevfs-2.so.0 is optional. How can I work around this as I'm not really interested in using any of the remote file capabilities?

TIA
Slack 10.2
1.2Ghz Celeron
256MB
20Gb HD

weibullguy · 12-13-2006, 11:54 AM

That library is provided by the GNOME Virtual File System. You need to install GNOME-VFS. Also, the optional packages in Bluefish have to be explicitly turned off. From the Bluefish manual

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These work like this: --with-xxx=foo enables the flag, --without-xxx disables it. When not enabled, the default is used.

Unless you compile it yourself, those "optional" dependencies are required.

pixellany · 12-13-2006, 12:35 PM

Bluefish is in the repositories of most distros I have used--not so with Slackware??

os400 · 12-17-2006, 10:16 PM

Thanks to all,
I found a Bluefish package with out the VFS stuff. Apparently, Slackware does not contain a bluefish pkg.

sorry for being so late with an update, but for some reason I had to go to work. Imagine that, in this day and age.

mike