Will Nvu work in RedHat 9

[Rick Stevens]

Charles R. Dennett wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Charles R. Dennett wrote:
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>>>Chris A Czerwinski said:
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>>>>I inherited a Web Site that uses Dreamweaver, which I use on my XP and I
>>>>am searching for something similar to use in Linux RedHat9 and someone
>>>>suggested Nvu. I physically swap Hard Drives for my Linux and restart my
>>>>OS - so Wine is not a solution.
>>>>
>>>>Nvu -  A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well
>>>>as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like  FrontPage and
>>>>Dreamweaver.  Link: http://www.nvu.com/
>>>>
>>>>Will there be any problems  - If I were to download Nvu's Fedora 2.0
>>>>version into RedHat 9?
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone tried it? Any other modules to watch out for and download?
>>>>
>>>>Or should I try the Tarball for Debian (k2.4) gcc/g++ 2.95.4 ?
>>>>
>>>>Any help is appreciated.
>>>>
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>>>Well, I run RH9 at home and downloaded the source for 0.40 a while ago and
>>>built it.  Works fine for me for what little I use it.  I don't recall
>>>running into any major problems building it.  I seem to recall something I
>>>had to tweak but it seemed pretty simple to me at the time.
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>>
>>Could it have been editing the Makefile so "CC=gcc296" so it used the
>>older 2.96 C compiler?
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> 
> 
> I take that back.  When I got home I checked what I had in my download
> area.  I did not have the source.  I had two tarfiles.  One was for
> fedora2.  The other was named nvu-0.40-pc-linux-gnu.tar.  It's this
> latter one I had untarred into the place I usually install stuff.  (I
> typically install in either /usr or /usr/local and then put a link in
> /usr/local/bin pointing to the executable.  Keeps the path short)  So,
> it looks like I downloaded the tarball that was built on Linspire
> (Debian k2.4) and it worked on my RH9 system.
> 
> So, give the Debian tarball a shot.  It just might work.

Ah.  I usually download to /usr/download, move tarballs, etc. to
/usr/xxx and build from there.
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