[Xastir] readme.win32 file

[Alan Crosswell]

Tyler,  why throw away perfectly good RPMs and install from source, potentially 
breaking dependencies other packages have on those libraries?

See www.columbia.edu/~alan/xastir/ for some rpms I've cobbled together and 
collected so that the entire xastir installation can be done via rpm.  Of 
course, having said that, the xastir rpm itself is now out of date since I 
haven't made a new one recently:-(
/a

Tyler Allison wrote:
>>One fellow that responded said that he had all the CD-ROM RPM packages
>>installed on his RH9.0 system due to loading them all from the get go. I
>>may just reload the whole box and do the same thing, in order to get the
>>RH9.0 to get by the RPM issue. I still want
>>to email RH (for whatever good that will do) and mention to them the
>>trouble I'm having (at least bring it to their attention). Xastir -
>>someday soon I hope ...
>>:-(
> 
> 
> No no no. You dont want *ANY* packages from Redhat that Xastir might use.
> Installing the entire RH9 system is a waste of diskspace and time. Im
> running my Xastir RH9 system on old PC with a 1Gig hard disk.
> 
> It's very SIMPLE to get RH9 running Xastir...do the following. If I have a
> couple hours in the next couple days I'll write up a DETAILED RH9 install
> guide using my laptop as the test machine.
> 
> - Install RH9 with the basic server configuration.
> 
> - Use rpm -qa and rpm -e to remove *ALL* libraries and packages listed in
> the Xastir INSTALL file. If rpm -e says that package is required by some
> other package, then remove the other package too.
> 
> - Download, compile, install *FROM SOURCE* all libraries and packages
> Xastir will be using.
> 
> - Compile Xastir
> 
> I did this not 4 days ago with a brand new RH9 machine and I was up and
> running within a few hours.
> 
> I have some experience building automated redhat configuration scripts so
> depending on my availability I'll see about writing one up and maybe we
> can just point RH9 questions at the script.
> 
> -Tyler
> 
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