[linux-audio-user] Re: Gnome Wave Cleaner

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:31 -0700, Mike Jewell wrote:
> Here's more of a philosophical question.  Can someone help me
> understand why installing an app like Gnome Wave Cleaner on a
> "standard", clean Linux distribution like my Fedora Core 3 from CCRMA
> is so d??n difficult?  Shouldn't all these libraries, etc just already
> be there?  I can maybe understand the unusual ones like
> "fftw" (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West) but why all the missing
> Gnome components?  It's probably only me that's missing something but
> it seems to me that Linux is never going to become even close to
> mainstream (maybe we don't want it to be mainstream) until it gets a
> good, consistent across all distros, way of installing apps that just
> works. 

Your FC3 should have come with a Gnome desktop by default, so all those
libraries should already be present.

Besides, doesn't RPM automatically resolve dependencies yet?  You should
be able to just RPM install gnome-wave-cleaner and all the dependent
packages will be installed for you.

Lee