Re: [Pan-users] Upgrade to Natty Narwhall, still problems

[Duncan]

Orlok Nosferatu posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 12:07:26 +0000 as excerpted:

> Aww. When I checked Pan I saw it still had the 0.133 version. So I
> started to upgrade by downloading and extracting the pan-0.123 package.
> When I executed ./configure I saw I had some missing packages, so I
> downloaded, extracted and ran the ./configure's of glib-2.24.1 and
> gmime-2.4.23 too. Checking the config.log's I saw "configure: exit 0" at
> the end of each (glib, gmime and pan) log file. So that should be good,
> shouldn't it? Why does my pan still say it is version 0.133 (when I look
> in the help menu followed by an 'about' menu choice)? A 'pan --version'
> gave me the same answer (eg 'Pan 0.133').

Wait!  You tried to /upgrade/ from 0.133 to 0.123?  ???

I hope you meant 0.134!

Meanwhile, I see you did the ./configure, but you don't mention doing the 
following make, make install.  You /did/ do the make, make install, 
right?  (Note that you can normally do the build as a normal user, but the 
install step will need to be done as root.)

Finally, IDR what pan's default is, but many source-builds default to 
installing in /usr/local (so /usr/local/bin for an executable like pan, 
or /usr/local/lib(64) for a library) if one hasn't fed ./configure 
additional settings.  Running ./configure --help (in the dir you unpacked 
the sources into, naturally) should spit out a bunch of information about 
the available options you can feed it.

If you did install it to /usr/local/bin/pan as I expect, then which one 
would actually be run would depend on the order of paths in the PATH 
environmental variable set for whatever you're running it from, if running 
it from the command-line, but if you use the normal menu launcher method, 
the menu launcher is very likely coded to the system pan's installation 
path, /usr/bin/pan or the like, so you'd get that one.

Unless of course you specifically uninstall the existing system pan 
package, so you only have the compiled version.  Then you'd probably get 
it when run from the command line, wherever it installed by default, and 
it might or might not appear on your launch menu.

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