[Pan-users] more troubles with 0.12 (long)

[Beartooth]

        When I got to the site Toby Inkster recommended, I thought
I remembered having discovered I could use 586 stuff; so I
downloaded it, tried it, and got:
===============================================================
address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
address@hidden btth]#
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        Well, methought, OK, maybe I only dreamt of discovering I
could use 586. So I downloaded the 386 and got:
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address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
address@hidden btth]#
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        That left 686, and I tried it:
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address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.12.0-1.i686.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glib2 >= 2.0.4 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        gtk2 >= 2.0.5 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libxml2 >= 2.4.22 is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libatk-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libglib-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgobject-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgthread-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpango-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangox-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0   is needed by pan-0.12.0-1
address@hidden btth]#
=================================================================

        Now, I'm not sophisticated enough to know how to display
two, let alone all three of those failed dependency lists alongside
one another, let alone intershuffle them; and I'm too lazy to
compare back & forth the hard way. But they sure all three *look*
suspiciously similar.

        Then methought I might be dreaming *now*; so, just to
check, I ran the older 386 again; sure enough, I got:
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address@hidden btth]# rpm -Uvh pan-0.11.2-3.i386.rpm
Preparing...
########################################### [100%]
package pan-0.11.2-3 is already installed
address@hidden btth]#
==================================================================

        So where are all these failed dependencies coming from all
of a sudden? I have a subscription to RH Errata alerts, and I've
been downloading faithfully -- *almost* everything, whether I
understand it or not -- except developer packages ....

        My hopes of ever being a developer in my own right are
significantly less than those of the proverbial celluloid
hound in hell; I just wanna offer a little naive user feedback
to youss real guyss! Maybe I have to have them even just to *run*
Pan? :-(

        If so -- is there an easy way to handle this? Or had I
better get back from outta my depth 'fore i drown in alien
electrons?
-- 
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
double retiree & linux greenhorn w/RH 7.2
Delenda est MegaSleazo!