On Sunday 07 October 2001 06:22 pm, John Gay wrote: > On Sunday 07 October 2001 23:01, you wrote: > > Dear Mr. Gay: > > > > According to the Borland website, Kylix runs only on Red Hat, Mandrake, > > and SuSe. They mention nothing about being able to run it on Deb systems. > > I checked this out as I was thinking of getting Kylix myself. > > Well, the install checks for critical things before it installs, as it > needs the latest versions of glibc and libjpeg. > > The minimum requirements are: > glibc 2.2 or they can provide a patched version for glibc2.1.2 or higher, > kernel version 2.2 or higher, and > libjpeg 6.2 or higher. > > My system met all these requirements. > > After a good search around my system, I am able to __Temporarily__ change > my locale setting with LANG=ie in a terminal, and then I can run startkylix > and play around with it. However, I still don't know how to make this > change permenant and the kylix menu option still won't work so I'm looking > for a more permenant solution.
I don't know about the Debian people, but I modified the /etc/environment file for the language and LC_ALL issue. On my machine, I have LANG=C and LC_ALL=en_US as the only two lines in that file. And Kylix has no problems. (Well, none associated with languages <g>). Logan Bear
