On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:31 -0700, Mike Jewell wrote: > Here's more of a philosophical question. Can someone help me > understand why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a > "standard", clean Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA > is so d??n difficult? Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already > be there? I can maybe understand the unusual ones like > "fftw" (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) but why all the missing > Gnome components? It's probably only me that's missing something but > it seems to me that Linux is never going to become even close to > mainstream (maybe we don't want it to be mainstream) until it gets a > good, consistent across all distros, way of installing apps that just > works. Your FC3 should have come with a Gnome desktop by default, so all those libraries should already be present. Besides, doesn't RPM automatically resolve dependencies yet? You should be able to just RPM install gnome-wave-cleaner and all the dependent packages will be installed for you. Lee
