From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5851 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2012 22:12:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 5843 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2012 22:12:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_GT,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from blu0-omc1-s19.blu0.hotmail.com (HELO blu0-omc1-s19.blu0.hotmail.com) (65.55.116.30) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:12:21 +0000 Received: from BLU0-SMTP248 ([65.55.116.8]) by blu0-omc1-s19.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:12:19 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([77.27.89.51]) by BLU0-SMTP248.phx.gbl over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:12:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:15:00 -0000 From: Aaron Schneider User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Attempting Gedit install on Cygwin References: <33461F8C3E2BC54E81BC8F429B4E598E05856C59@EMAIL.samc.org> In-Reply-To: <33461F8C3E2BC54E81BC8F429B4E598E05856C59@EMAIL.samc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 On 01/08/2012 19:31, Mitchell, Tim wrote: > Hey Cygwin gurus, > > I'm on day 4 of my attempted install of Gedit-3.2.6 and my frustration > has surpassed my fear of asking the "stupid question". > Is this even possible? My OS is Windows 7 Pro and I'm running Cygwin > version : > $ cygcheck -V > cygcheck (cygwin) 1.7.15 > System Checker for Cygwin > > I haven't read anything on "the Web" that leads to me to believe that > this is an impossible endeavor. > I've downloaded the gedit-3.2.6.tar, unpacked/extracted it and run the > Configure file. > After numerous attempts and after adding XML:: Perl Parsers, adding > intltool-0.50.2 and Expat 2.1.0 plus anything else it asked for, > I am now being told that required packages are missing, them being: > gtksourceview-3.0 > libpeas-1.0 > libpeas-gtk-1.0 > > The above packages I did not find under the Cygwin package list. I was > able to find, download and configure gtksourceview-3.0 > but it still comes up missing when I re-run the gedit configure. I found > libpeas-1.4.0 but have not been able to configure it. > > If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful. > You can't just extract a tar.bz2 to cygwin tree and expect it to work if you don't know what you are doing. Probably there are missing dependencies or post-install tasks to be done. Since GEdit belongs to gnome environment it's not in the default cygwin setup.exe tree, you should install it from cyports: http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple