Need help installing program -- it's driving me crazy!

[someguy00]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get a reference manager installed to help me keep track of all the papers that I'm supposed to read. I found two such programs that I'd like to install, but I can't get them to work.

I'm running suse 10.2, 64-bit version (gnome).

program 1: referencer Referencer

I downloaded the tarball, extracted it and ran ./configure && make. It tells me that I am missing the following dependencies:

No package 'libgnomeuimm-2.6' found
No package 'gtkmm-2.4' found
No package 'libglademm-2.4' found
No package 'gconfmm-2.6' found
No package 'gnome-vfsmm-2.6' found
No package 'poppler-glib' found

I tried installing these packages through yrast, but it couldn't find most of them. I tried searching via google, but couldn't get anything useful.

Can anyone help me install these dependencies?

Program 2: jabref: JabRef reference manager

Having wasted lots of time with the first program, I found this alternative. It needs java and "ant". I have both these things installed (java 1.5, 32-bit version).

To compile the program, the instructions say to type:

ant compile unjarlib jars

and when I do, this is the error message that I get:

Buildfile: build.xml

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 419 source files to 
~/Desktop/jabref-2.2/build/classes

BUILD FAILED
~/Desktop/jabref-2.2/build.xml:160: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK

Total time: 1 second

I do have the java sdk installed. I lost lots of time here too. Can anyone help me fix this?

[glennzo]

I don't use SUSE. I'm a Fedora user, but I wonder what commands you are using to install the needed packages. And did you check to see if the packages are already installed. In Fedora, if I want to know if a package is already installed I would use a terminal and type
rpm -q packagename
which would either return the name of the package and the version or nothing at all. If I wanted to install a package (and by package, in this case I mean the ones that appear to be dependencies of the program you want to install) I would use a terminal and type
yum install packagename
and would not use a version number like
yum install packagename-1.2.3
If the package is available then the newest version would be installed. Maybe you can use my Fedora info as a generic guide to package installation on SUSE?

[Pumalite]

Make sure you have all your Installation Sources. Check this:

Yast Repositories For 10.2 - SUSE Forums

Also try Smart Package Manager too. It configures its own Installation Sources, but you can add some more. It's always better to install an RPM through Yast or Smart, if you can help it.

[someguy00]

Thanks for the replies,

In the end, I gave up on referencer--I can't find the dependencies (even though I have lots of repositories). I tried the program out in Ubuntu, and didn't like it that much anyway.

As for JabRef, I found out that I didn't have to compile it: I could just download a JabRef-2.2.jar file, and run it with the command: java -jar JabRef-2.2.jar. It works great!

[Mooseguy]

Just a thought, but I seem to remember that a dependency called libsomeprogram by ./configure would be called someprogam-dev by YaST. I had the same problem once, and that fixed it.