Upgrading Pango

[Ant0]

Hi there

I am trying to install Dia on my Fedora 7 laptop and when I run the configure it tells me the version of Pango is too low and I need 1.1.5 or higher.

I am struggling to work out how to upgrate this, yum upgrade pango does not do anything, and looking at

http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pango

leaves me very confused about what to acutally do.

Could someone give me some advise?

Thanks

 

[thedaver]

yum update pango" ???

"yum search pango" to figure out available vers

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[Ant0]

Yep "yum update pango" because I need to update/upgrade the current installation of Pango of my machine. I have tried both update and upgrade and neither update or upgrade the current installed version.

yum search pango ? Not sure what this will do? man yum tells me that it is used to find any packages matching a string. The output just gives descriptive text of pango.

Just to re-iterate, I need to upgrade my current installation of Pango and I unable to do this with yum.

 

[thedaver]

the "search" was to help you identify whether there's a pango package known to your "yum" that is newer than installed AND helps ensure that you're calling the pango package by the right name (in the package repository)!

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[Ant0]

Tell you what, forget about it. I will go else where.

 

[zeland]

I sense bad vibes (attitude) dude. Peace!

Use yum search package_name to find & verify the package you think you want is in the repository. Example:

# yum search scribus
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
[b]scribus-devel.i386 : Header files for Scribus[/b]
[b]scribus.i386 : DeskTop Publishing application written in Qt[/b]

From here, I now know that there are 2 packages with the name containing scribus in my current repository. Now I want more information about scribus.i386.

# yum info scribus.i386
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Available Packages
Name   : scribus
Arch   : i386
Version: 1.3.4
Release: 1.fc8
Size   : 10 M
Repo   : fedora
Summary: DeskTop Publishing application written in Qt
Description:
Scribus is an desktop open source page layout program with
the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and
Postscript, primarily, though not exclusively for Linux.

While the goals of the program are for ease of use and simple easy to
understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing
features, such as CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript
import/export and creation of color separations.

Now I have more information about the scribus package.

Armed with this new knowledge, check if you already have the latest version.

P/S: The link you provided is a link to pango's svn repo. You can download all the files and folders from it manually then compile or learn to use an SVN client and grab the whole source tree.

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