Will Nvu work in RedHat 9

[Rick Stevens]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 19:43, Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>Charles R. Dennett wrote:
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>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>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?
>>>
>>>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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>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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> 
> Thanks Guys... for the words of encouragement.
> 
> I'll do a little more reading up in Fedora and set up some time next 
> week for this exercise before I decide ...
> 
> 1. A fresh Install and copy the files from backup  or 
> 2. Copy source and build     or
> 3. Maybe I'll even resurrect my old 40GB HD and install Fedora Core 2 
>    and attach my present HD as a slave and use it so I don't have to 
>    copy or restore from backup - just clean up the second HD.
> 
> Option 3 looks a little less work, but I never had the luxury of a 
> second HD what should I be careful of. Any insights.  

3 is probably the easiest, but also the most clunky.  A backup of your
current files to RELIABLE media, a fresh install and a restoration is
the cleanest method but also the most work.
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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
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