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   Message 137,982 of 138,051   
   Malcolm to R Daneel Olivaw   
   Re: Compiling Software   
   19 Mar 25 09:19:25   
   
   From: malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:10:06 +0100   
   R Daneel Olivaw  wrote:   
      
   > Malcolm wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:53:42 +0100   
   > > R Daneel Olivaw  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Hi,   
   > >>   
   > >> I have Leap 15.6 installed, but one particular package lost   
   > >> functionality between 15.5 and 15.6 so I have installed the Source   
   > >> rpm from 15.5 and wish to compile it against the current libraries.   
   > >> I have already tried using the 15.5 executable but things are not   
   > >> going particularly well - random aborts and general misbehaviour.   
   > >>   
   > >> dragonplayer-22.12.3-bp155.1.5.src.rpm   
   > >>   
   > >> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Compiling_software was "tested on   
   > >> openSUSE 12.1" and is not being particularly helpful - starting   
   > >> with there not being a "./configure" file (I had copied and   
   > >> unpacked SOURCES/dragon-22.12.3.tar.xz).   
   > >>   
   > >> Is there any current documentation?  Bearing in mind that I have   
   > >> not compiled anything under Linux for at least 25 years (back then   
   > >> it was Kernels and Samba).   
   > > Hi   
   > > As your user run `rpmbuild --rebuild   
   > > dragonplayer-22.12.3-bp155.1.5.src.rpm`   
   > >   
   >   
   > Thank you, that started off well with a list of missing dependencies.   
   > Installing the missing packages made a fair proportion of those   
   > dependencies go away, but "cmake(blah blah)" is still there.  For 17   
   > different values of blah blah.  Although cmake is now installed (and   
   > I even rebooted).   
   Hi   
   So use zypper eg `zypper in cmake\(KF5IconThemes\)` or `zypper in   
   "cmake(KF5IconThemes)"` should work you need to inspect the spec file to   
   get all the build requires...   
      
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