[Bacula-users] Bacula and CentOS 5.2 Deficiencies

I'm attempting to get Bacula 2.4.3 working on a fresh install of  
CentOS 5.2 (up to date) for evaluation. Been at it all day.

After replacing CentOS' MySQL with MySQL-Sun's official version and  
installing bacula-mtx, the bacula-mysql RPM installed without any  
trouble.

I thought the GUI would be nice so I tried to install a Fedora RPM,  
hoping I would get lucky:

  [root@backup1 ~] rpm -hiv --test bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.fc9.i386.rpm
  warning: bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.fc9.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA  
signature:
  NOKEY, key ID 10a792ad
  error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc >= 2.8 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        gtk2 >= 2.12 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        libbonobo >= 2.22 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        libbonoboui >= 2.22 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        libcrypto.so.7 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        libgnomeui >= 2.22 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386
        libssl.so.7 is needed by bacula-gconsole-2.4.3-1.i386


Updating CentOS for these deficiencies is no walk in the park. In  
fact, I'm not going to do it. I was willing to experiment with older  
versions of Bacula, hoping that if I went far enough back in time that  
I could get a good, full install. No luck. (I didn't try anything  
older than 2.2.3-1, though.)

So, one or two questions come to mind:

1. The "Supported Operating Systems" page lists this on the first  
line: "Linux systems (built and tested on CentOS 5)." This doesn't  
include the GUI stuff?

2. As an alternative, I have considered trying to get this going on  
Fedora. Is this recommended?

3. Which platform (including non-RPM-based distributions) is Bacula  
considered to run best on.

4. Is compiling gconsole source pretty easy or will I face dependency  
problems there, too?


TIA,

--Richard



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