[WBEL-users] mc RPM for WBEL anyone?

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:57:50 -0400 "Mike B." <Saber at omniphile.com> wrote:

> 
> I've been using RH-7.2 for years, but am looking into switching to WBEL to 
> get something a bit more modern (I've got WBEL 3 CDs at the moment...I know 
> 4 is out, but 3 is what I have at the moment).  I've installed it on a 
> spare machine, and in playing with it I find that one of the more useful 
> command line apps, Midnight Commander (mc), is missing!  What gives?  Has 
> everyone gone GUI or something?
> 
> I found the SRPMs for mc for RHEL, and downloaded the latest one, but it 
> won't install properly.  I worked past the problems rpmbuild has with the 
> "%include"  "macros" in various comments by changing the "%include" to 
> "%_include" in the comments of the spec file.  And a similar problem with 
> another macro ("%proc" I think it was) in the same way.  That got things 
> moving, and I updated the SRPM ok...but trying to make an RPM is failing 
> with a list of files that are there, but not included in the RPM.  They 
> seem to be mostly doc and HTMLs, but there are some others (I don't have 
> mail set up on that machine yet, or a way to get into it from this machine 
> yet, so I can't cut-paste the exact error messages).
> 
> Rather than spending a lot of time figuring out how to fix that one too, is 
> it possible that someone has already done this and has a WBEL RPM for 
> mc?  If not, I guess I'll have to learn some more about building RPMs... ;-)

Try installing the RH9 binary RPM:

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat-archive/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/mc-4.6.0-4.i386.rpm

many RH9 binary RPMs install just fine under WBL3.

> 
> -- Mike B.

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