Yeah, another “Getting to work on openSUSE 10.3” post. Perhaps I should print me a t-shirt: “No, I will not fix your openSUSE” or “I helped Novell to actually make a linux distribution and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”
This time our package is “simply” not included (Remember this x point. I will tell you what happend right there immediately.) in the distribution…
Hm…
I just decided to write another article about how openSUSE 10.3 finally sucks (will link it here, if done. THERE I will tell you, what happend at x 
)
Enough ranting (calm down, calm down)…
If you want gscan2pdf on openSUSE 10.3 , you have to Install perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer first.
This package is a dependency of gscan2pdf, which is neither in the main repository nor in the build service.
Download the
perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse102.src.rpm
from the guru repository (We cannot install that directly on 10.3 .Noticed the 102 and the src ).
Try to build it with
#> rpmbuild --rebuild perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse102.src.rpm
Installing perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse102.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 58857177
error: Failed build dependencies:
perl-Gtk2 is needed by perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse103.i586
perl-Glib is needed by perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse103.i586
perl-IO-stringy is needed by perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse103.i586
perl-Pod-Simple is needed by perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse103.i586
Install the four listed dependencies, if necessary (They should be all in Yast…). Then try again.
Now, install the new package. As root:
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/perl-Gtk2-Ex-PodViewer-0.14-3.guru.suse103.i586.rpm
“U” means “upgrade or install” and “vh” configures the graphical progress bar of the rpm command.
Do the same for:
perl-Gtk2-Ex-Simple-List-0.50-2.guru.suse100.src.rpm
Finally, search gscan2pdf in the build service , install it and enjoy!
