Royce Teo wrote: > > I had a user a/c just to try all wm. I had added /usr/local/lib into > ld.so.conf and /sbin/ldconfig. The user a/c was able to run wm 0.53 but I > did not specify the directory properly when I make install and everything > landed up in /usr/local/bin instead of /usr/X11R6/bin etc. so to avoid the > hassle of resetting the path in wmakerconf, I decided to use a rpm of the > .50 version for redhat. I rpm under root (no access by user). Guess what? > RPM manager tells me it can't find libwraster.so.1. the damn library has > already been linked (ldconfig & in ld.so.conf) and sitting pretty in > /usr/local/lib and what's more, rpm tells me it can find the libs for wmaker > .50. BUT when I su to my user a/c I run wmaker 0.53 fine. Well at least it > started but all the paths were wrong. Major headache. Unless those libraries were installed from .rpm packages, RPM has no way of knowing they exist. The package manager keeps a database of the files contained in installed packages and that's what it references when trying to install new packages. If it's not in the database, it doesn't exist as far as RPM knows. There is a libproplist (or something named similarly) available which provides the libraries you need to install the WindowMaker package. > My objective: get wmaker up (hopefully latest 0.53 version but can't seem > to find the redhat rpm for 0.53) with all the paths correct. C.f. the 0.20 > wmaker I had originally when there was no need to install libProplist. (I > had uninstalled .20 already Libproplist was split out of the main WindowMaker packages early in the .5x series, I don't recall when. > Anyhelp? Remove your handbuilt WindowMaker installation. Every last bit of it. Check the WindowMaker FTP site for .rpm packages for WindowMaker and Libproplist and use those to install the latest version. > Topic 2: if I were to download rh6.0 (everything) into my vfat32 harddisk, > how should I install into my current ext2 partitions. I am using adsl to > grap the files. Presumably I would need to autoboot (from dosutils) into > linux and start the installation. I am aware that I need a sup disk too. May > I know the specific steps so that I won't blow away my windoze (I still need > the adsl). Clarification both win and linux are on the same machine. Win on > a 6.4g hda and linux on 6.4g hdb1,5,6. Wouldn't this be better taken up with a Red Hat list? -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
