July 12, 2007 @ 12:15
howto install latest tomboy in fedora core 6
If you have Fedora Core 6 you are using Tomboy 0.4.1 because that is the latest version that Gnome 2.16 comes with. To me this is a nonsense and I didn’t see any libraries that prevent tomboy to be updated to a newer version.
I tried compiling tomboy 0.6.3 (latest stable version) and 0.7.1 (latest unstable version) from source. I added missing dependencies that ./configure complained about (yum -y install libgnomeprint22-devel libgnomeprintui22-devel gtk-sharp-2.0-devel) but I still got some missing dependencies I couldn’t resolve (gnome-sharp-2.0 and gconf-sharp-2.0).
After posting to fedora-devel mailing list I got a great suggestion - to install it from development repository.
That worked out great! And as I suspected there are no other dependencies, it is a clean update.
Just issue this command, and you are off:
yum update tomboy --enablerepo=development
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Posted by MarkHu
September 23, 2008 @ 18:54
Hey, this works great. Thanks for the tip! A couple of caveats for others who want to try it:
My experience was that it took several minutes of yum pegging the CPU at 100% while
the first set of dependencies resolved. This may be because it was the first time I’d ever
ran –enablerepo=development on my machine.
To complicate things, while it was churning away –with no progress indicator I might
add– I hit ENTER a few times as is my habit while bored. Problem is, this caused it to do the default action at the “y/N” prompt, thereby not installing it. So I ran the command again, and this time it went faster. Apparently some of the repository info is cached locally.
Success:
$ tomboy –version
Tomboy: A simple, easy to use desktop note-taking application.
Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Alex Graveley
Version 0.11.3