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[Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 11:14 pm, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> Folks,
> Ok, this is my first spell and I' m having some probs.
> First off, since the seahorse2 project is in the same directory as
> the seahorse project the sorcecode tar is named sehorse2-version but the
> directory is seahorse. So i kept the $Spell = seahorse while adding a '2'
> to the source-drectory.
>


Actually, when extracted, creates a directory named seahorse2-0.3.7.  Using 
tar xzf gives you that.  I've attached your spell with some modifications.  I 
only went so far as I don't have GNOME2 installed, and there were several 
spells that needed to be cast before I could cast seahorse2.  :)

As the "2" is a part of the extracted directory name, I made it a part of the 
name.  Also, the "-1" at the end of the version is not a part of the 
directory name, so I took it off of the version and manually added it to the 
${SOURCE} variable.

Also, I added {} around the variable names.  It's not always necessary, but 
it 
helps bash define what part is the variable name and what part is not.  I do 
it mostly out of habit, but it's especially useful when you have variables 
like your and my SOURCE variables.


>
> Is this the correct way to handle this?
>
> How do i generate a MD5 sum?
>


Uncompress the file and run md5sum on the tarred file:

1)  gunzip  seahorse2-0.3.7-1.tar.gz
2)  md5sum  seahorse2-0.3.7-1.tar


>
> Why won't this spell cast? (it hands at saving dependancies?
>
>
> Thanx in advance for the help folks,
>
> Bearcat M. Sandor


It wouldn't cast for me because of dependency issues.  I had to add a couple 
that you did not have.  I also removed gtk+2 as it was a depends for one of 
the ones I added.  It's possible there are other changes that need to be 
made, but this was as far as I was willing to go.

One final note.  When you compress several files into one and use a command 
like 'tar xyf' (or 'tar xjf'), you don't then need to run bzip on it as tar 
does that with the 'y' (or 'j') switch.  I usually change to the parent 
directory and then execute something like the following:

tar xyf seahorse2-spell.tar.bz2 seahorse2/

(Everyone always has a 'v' in there for verbose, but I don't like to see all 
the files scrolling down the screen.)

I hope this was helpful for you.


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Jason Flatt
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