[Techtalk] Installing applications

[ETKirk at aol.com]

I originally posted this on newchix, and someone suggested I try posting it 
out here as well, so here goes:

I am a very new newbie, having installed Linux only a few weeks ago.  This is 
kind of a long-winded question, but I want to describe my problem as 
explicitly as possible.

I'm running the SuSE 8.0 Personal distro.  Having explored the KDE and GNOME 
desktops and learning a few basic shell commands, I decided to try installing 
some software.  

I wanted a good HTML editor - I have Quanta, but it seems fairly limited 
compared to the editor I'm using in Windows (1st Page by Eversoft) - so I did 
some searching on the Web and found Bluefish.  I downloaded Bluefish 0.7 and 
successfully unpacked the tar archive into usr/local/src. 

I read the Install file and proceeded to follow the directions, beginning 
with running ./configure.  I immediately got a "Permission Denied" message, 
so I logged on as root.  I again ran ./configure . . . and got another error 
message - cc not found.  I figured out that I did not have a C compiler 
installed, but found that I did have one included in my distro packages and 
was able to install it with YaST without incident.

Back to the shell . . . I again ran ./configure . . . and it started running 
. . . but it balked again, giving me another error message:

*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
checking "for GTK  - microversion \>= 7"... ./configure: no: command not 
found
./configure: test: -gt: unary operator expected
no
configure: error: GTK was not detected
./configure: exit: bad non-numeric arg `or'


Apparently, Bluefish couldn't find gtk-config.  I did a search of my files, 
and I couldn't find it either,  I went to gtk.org, and found something about 
*-config having been replaced by pkg-config.  I do have a file 
/usr/lib/pkgconfig. - is this what bluefish wants?  If so, how do I point it 
to this file?  Do I need a different version of Gtk?  I have 1.2.10-284 
installed - bluefish says it wants 1.2.0 or better.  I downloaded 1.2.10-5 
and attempted to upgrade, but got the message that it needed iconv.  

Every step of the way, I'm getting deeper and deeper into unfamiliar 
territory, and I'm beginning to feel really lost!

Any help will be greatly appreciated - I really would like to be succesful 
with this!

Thanks in advance,

Erin Raasch
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