Installing libast and imlib2 not working

[duragezic]

I've wanted to setup Eterm in my home directory at school. I'm unsure of what version FC it is running, but probably not v6 or 7 (maybe v4 or 5, though no idea how to find out such a SIMPLE thing in PITA linux).

So the dependencies for Eterm 0.9.4 are libast and possibly libim2. Due to dependency horrors I figured I'd install both. So I found the .tar.gz packages for each, ran

gunzip file_name.tar.gz | tar -xf -

which extracted them to a directory. I went to that directory and typed

./configure
make

libast seems to configure and compile without error. imlib2 has an error of 'label at end of statement'. But I don't think I really need imlib2 because when I try to ./configure Eterm, it says only libast is not present and required (and tried to auto-get it but failed with "no route to host"). So libast seems to compile fine, but it either isn't there or isn't registered so that Eterm knows of it. When I go to the libast directory where the tarball was extracted to and type

libast-config -ldflags

It prints: -L/user/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib

No idea what that means, but I can't find it present in the /usr directory and /user is no such directory.

Any idea what to do?

 

[Robor]

You should post this in the 'Operating Systems' forum.

Can't you just find a repository and use yum or yumex to install it?

 

[duragezic]

I need root privledges for installing with yum and for rpm packages I believe.

 

[duragezic]

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[duragezic]

TTT

 

[duragezic]

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Last try here before I start it in OS