wxGTK libs

[Andy Waddington on Cave Surveying]

On Monday 2003-07-21 18:49, Olly Betts typed:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:53:40PM +0100, Andy Waddington on Cave Surveying 
wrote:

> Did you check what you downloaded?  Sourceforge download links go to an
> HTML page which offers downloads from mirrors around the world, so if
> you downloaded with shift-click or similar you probably just downloaded
> that page.  Load it into an editor and see if it's HTML...

Aaaarrrggghhhh !!! I would expect to be taken to a page offering me a
choice of mirrors if I was following a link to an html file, but the links
definitely point to files ending in ".rpm" so it never occurred to me that
this would be the problem - I usually spot this happening (yes, it has got
me before, several times) but because I was following links from the
Survex page and not the sourceforge one, I didn't twig.

However, having solved that, I still can't build. I'll mail you off list,
Olly, as requested, with the full output. It is possible that the problem
arises because I chose wxGTK RPMs (yes, I did get the -devel one as
well) specific to my distribution - mainly because I have been trying to
upgrade something else and found myself shafted by dependencies that
wanted a different glibc version.

Wooks says

> Install Debian

Yes, I know apt-get <whatever> looks after all the dependencies for me,
but it does so by updating whatever needs updating. Whereas with the
RPM system, at least one finds out early on that fixing the dependencies
will require updating something so fundamental (like glibc) that it is going
to be a 2-day download, followed by a rebuild of all my own code...

> Get the most recent [RISC OS] version anyway

But I want one to run on my laptop, so in this case, that won't do :-)

Andy