Hello all,

I am curious if anyone has tried running Red Hat's Mugshot client on Slackware. I downloaded the RPM for FC5 and extracted all of the files from it and copied them to my system. When I try to run it of course it throws dependency errors. First it was looking for libdbus, but I installed that from source, so thats out of the way. Now its asking for libloudmouth and I am starting to remember why I hate rpm based distros sometimes Rather than proceed and attempt to install every dependency one at a time I was hoping if someone here has any experience with this or is able to point me in the right direction to get this working.

I was under the impression, rightly or wrongly, that if there is a dependency issue and you had missing dependencies, you have to install them regardless. You could use something like swaret to update with but if I doubt the package will be listed there. Have you tried rpm2tgz?

I have no experience with Mugshot, but I'll throw out some ideas.

Why not just install from the source code? It's available at http://download.mugshot.org/client/sources/linux/

I took a peek at the Gentoo ebuild for this, and these are the dependencies you'll need to satisfy... gtk+-2.6, dbus, loudmouth, gconf, and curl. In addition, loudmouth has its own set of dependencies. You probably have at least gtk already installed. Maybe you should try www.slacky.it or linuxpackages.net to get packages for the rest.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'll try those out and see how it goes.