[cairo] Cairo on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

ken carlino ken.carlino at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 08:31:53 PST 2007


On 3/9/07, Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel.pacaud at lapp.in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Le jeudi 08 mars 2007 à 17:55 -0600, ken carlino a écrit :
> > Does Cairo install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ?
> > I did a 'rpm -q cairo', I don't see it has cairo.
> >
> > If not, if my application uses cairo and need to be deployed on RHEL4,
> > what is the best way to do that?  I prefer not to have the user to
> > download the cairo source and compile/install on RHEL4.
>
> RHEL4 ships with gtk 2.4, so I doubt there's an official cairo package
> for it, and if there was one, it would be a very old cairo version you
> don't want to use.
>

thanks. Does that mean I can build a cairo 1.0.4 on RHEL4?
and package that with my application?


> The best solution for you is to build a package you can give to your
> users, probably by backporting a recent Fedora Core one.
>
>         Emmanuel.
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