On Dec 13 at 10:06AM Shawn wrote: > I'd like to try and get away from K-mail, I'd use pine, but I want > a GUI interface so I'm looking at Sylpheed. *cough* mutt > When I do make or make install I get an error message saying that > gtk.h is needed. It's on my system: > /opt/gnome/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h > Why is it that it keeps erroring out on me then? Do I need to > compile or load it or ???? doing something like ln -s /opt/gnome/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h /usr/include/gtk.h and then running configure should give you better results. you'll probably have to do that with a few other headers if they are in weird places as well. you could always just change your include path, but what fun is that? > Second, I've been looking at Debian as another distro to install > on a system. However, the one thing holding me back from it for > the most part is the stable version is still at 2.2.19 kernel it > looks like. Can someone explain why Debian is so far behind in > their stable release compared to all the other distros? 2.4 isn't really 'stable' in many people's eyes, I would guess that has something to do with it. see: filesystem corruption, virtual memory changes, etc. -- tim lupfer tl at assimilated.org familiarity breeds contempt--and children. --mark twain's notebook. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 868 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011213/115e3426/attachment.pgp