gDesklets for 4.0 - use gDesklets-0.31 until...

[Andrew]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:03, a monkey wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:47, a monkey wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>By the time you emailed this message to me, I had already upgraded gtk 
> >>and the other packages and installed 0.32. :-) Thanks for taking the 
> >>time to help, though.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Great! Thats some good news. I tried to upgrade gtk, too, but the
> >gDesklets's configure script still think I have the old version ?:/
> >
> >Would you be kind enough to provide me (all of us, indeed) with some
> >instructions? Mostly post-install stuffs like how to convince the system
> >to use the newest package.
> >
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> Ok, guys, here goes. Since YDL's RPMs are outdated, we need to update 
> the packages in a more manual way. The easiest way to do this is 
> compiling source RPMs. The easiest way to get one of these is Google. Do 
> a search somewhat similar to this: `<packagename>-<version> src' e.g. 
> `pyorbit-2.0.1 src'. Make sure you have rpmbuild installed. If not, you 
> can install it via yum: `yum install rpmbuild'. Make sure you are root 
> from now on. To build a binary RPM using your source RPM via rpmbuild, 
> use: `rpmbuild --rebuild bla.src.rpm'. If there are packages required to 
> build your RPM, install them either using yum or another source RPM. If 
> your build is successful, there will be a binary RPM waiting for you in 
> /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc. cd to this directory, and type `rpm -ivh 
> --force bla.ppc.rpm'. This will have the old installation of the package 
> be overwritten by the new installation of the package. There's no 
> post-install stuff, really. Now your system will be using a new version 
> of the package.

That must be it: I was trying to upgrade a rpm package by compiling a
tarball file.. mindless silly me.. But the best part is yet to come: I
knew it was not the best way around I just forgot I knew better. =/