Suse & sylpheed problem

Rick Sivernell res005ru
Mon Jan 24 19:24:10 PST 2005


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:22:24 -0500
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

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> How is the Sylpheed project doing these days?  About a year ago I told
> some customers to kick the Outlook habit and choose Mozilla Mail
> instead.  I tried it so I could better support it and by golly I liked
> it.  Many of the things I loved about Sylpheed were there, and it
> worked pretty well.  Haven't touched Sylpheed for over a year now.  I
> do recall that Sylpheed is in 9.1.  Is it not also in 9.2?  If you
> install it as SuSE packages it, perhaps their SRPM could be used to
> install the newer versions or claws?
> 
> Rick Sivernell wrote:
> | On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:28:09 -0800
> | Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> |
> |
> |>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> |>
> |>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:11:58 -0800
> |>
> |>...
> |>
> |>>  Suse 9.2 Pro & there is no glib-config on my machine, at least
> |>>  find / -name "glib-config" did not find any.
> |>
> |>You need to install glib-devel using yast2.  It would probably be a
> |>good idea to go into the Selections menu in the software install,
> and|>check all the development systems.  You will most likely be
> running|>into more missing libraries if you plan to do much
> development or|>compiling open source software.
> |>
> |>Bill
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> |
> | Bill
> |
> |    Just enough for my wife to surf the net, do her emails, and a
> occassional letter, but most important is her pictures from her
> digital camera, setting up special place for that on the drive and
> make it as automatic as I can. Plug in drive hit an icon, to run
> mounting script and let her move them from the camera to the hd, and
> then save or play with them as dhe likes. The gimp to adjust them
> visually. Her machine is my old PIII-533 coopermine with 756 memory
> and a 17" monitor. It is so much faster than anything she has had in
> the past or at work. Best she is using LINUX, not M$. Do need to setup
> wine so she can do taxes.|
> | cheers
> 
> - --
> Matthew Carpenter
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Well on my wife's machine I gave up, too much time devoted and had other things to get on her machine, used kmail for now. I did see tha claws is up to 1.0.

cheers

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Rick Sivernell
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res005ru at verizon.net
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