On Wednesday 16 May 2001 14:34, you wrote about [newbie] Photopaint that ...
> How to install photopaint 9 under mandrake ?
I don't have it installed at the moment, but these instructions worked for me
before ...
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> As others may have commented on, I'm a bit miffed that
> Corel didn't include the apparently mandatory Fonttastic
> font manager program with their rpm distribution of Photopaint.
> Without it, Photopaint is apparently inoperative.
>
> No mention of it under requirements, other than their product
> would work fine on Mandrake. Had they bothered mentioning it,
> it would have saved me a lot of grief.
>
> It works fine, all right, like providing a car without tires.
>
> Grrrr....You get what you pay for, I guess.
when you have untared the Photopaint file have a look under
/dists/redhat/i386
You should find fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.06.22.14.00-1.i386.rpm
On mandrake 7.2 I had the following problems getting Photopaint to work.
First of all make sure that you install the glibc-2.1 version of fonttastic
and not the glibc-2.0 one. I killed X doing that.
I also found that I had to force fontastic (or ignore dependencies -- can't
remember which) to get it to install as it conflicts with some init scripts.
Secondly, installing Photopaint stuffed up my menus in KDE 2.0 (each menu
repeats about 7 times). In order to avoid this I deleted the following
files from /dists/redhat/i386 before I ran the setup program
menusupport-kde-corel-2000.06.22.14.00-1.i386.rpm
menusupport-redhat-2000.06.20.12.00-1.i386.rpm
Setup will complain that there were some files missing in the install
process but beside that it works fine - you just need to run photopaint
from a terminal or add it to the menu manually.
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