How to get Pybliographer running on RedHat 8.0 and RedHat 9

Note: this information is now outdated. The pybliographer RPM packages are available on the download page at sourceforge. These work fine using Fedora Core 1 without having to use these workarounds anymore.

you will need to have openssl096b-0.9.6b-6 installed, otherwise compat-python-1.5.2-38 will not be installed with a complaint about missing libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2.
install python-1.5.2. To do it without interfering with the python-2.2.x package, you may use the following modified versions (no warranties whatsoever):
- Binaries: compat-python-1.5.2-38.i386.rpm, compat-python-devel-1.5.2-38.i386.rpm, compat-python-docs-1.5.2-38.i386.rpm, compat-python-tools-1.5.2-38.i386.rpm. (This one is not really needed, and it conflicts with python-tools).
- Source: compat-python-1.5.2-38.src.rpm
Install pygnome and pygtk from either Binaries or source:
- Binaries: pygnome-1.4.2-3.i386.rpm, pygtk-0.6.9-3.i386.rpm.
- Source: gnome-python-1.4.2-3.src.rpm.
Here comes the really dirty part (I haven't had time to build an RPM for Red Hat 8.0 so the requirements don't actually fit, so the pybliographer package will depend on python2 to be installed rather than python-compat-1.5.2 and you have to modify one file manually). If you have the time to do it right, let me know.
- install the pybliographer-1.0.11-2.rh_7x.i386.rpm package you can get from here or here.
- modify the file /usr/bin/pybliographer so the first line reads "#!/usr/bin/python1.5" instead of "#!/usr/bin/python" to use the older python version.
Remember to use recode-3.5 instead of 3.6, at least I had some problems with the original 3.6-6 package. You can get it from the download page of the pybliographer site.

So you may be wondering why I chose to use python 1.5. It was the easiest and fastest way to get gnome-python and gnome-python2 work on the same machine without any conflict. gnome-python works on python-1.5.2 and gnome-python2 on the distributed python-2.2.

MD5 sums:
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5cf79fb95a91cb0dd61071b5ec080890  gnome-python-1.4.2-3.src.rpm
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Contact: Jens Hardings
Last Modification: December 5, 2003.