[CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

Thu Jul 2 20:49:41 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On 7/2/09, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 16:05, Lanny Marcus<lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gary: The KompoZer web site says the .8 alpha4 version is much more
>> stable on Linux than the current version,
>
> Actually they say the 0.8 branch (not specifically alpha4 version) is
> more stable than the 0.7 branch.

Filipe: You are correct about that.   :-)
>
>> but I don't see an SRPM available.
>
> Indeed there is none for 0.8a4, but there is one for 0.8a3:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/files/kompozer/kompozer-0.8a3-fc10-src.rpm

> See all files here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/files/

Found it.
>
> OTOH, I believe building this from source might become very tricky,
> since it is based on Mozilla code I can only guess the nightmare of
> dependencies to get it done... Although less than ideal, you might
> have more luck just downloading and unpacking the binary pre-compiled
> packages which should have all the libraries prepared to work in an
> alternate path under a directory such as /opt or /usr/local.

Not install as RPM? I can do that, but obviously that's not good with
an RPM based distro. As always, thank you!