[linux-help] Re: Redhat RPM help

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok, i'm assuming you ran wmaker from the commandline...  what you need to
do instead is edit your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession file and add the line:

exec /usr/local/bin/wmaker

where "/usr/local/bin" should be replaced w/ the path to wherever wmaker
resides (find out by 'which wmaker').  then, you can safely comment out
(add a "#" at the beginning) any other lines starting w/ "exec"...

good luck!
gLaNDix

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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Bruce Bales wrote:

>
> Some progress.  I went to rpmfind.net as Jesse suggested and eventually found 
> and
> RPMed 17 required RPM files from the cdrom.  The final one was WindowMaker.  
> I then
> ran wmaker.inst.  It installed, but something is still missing.  wmaker still 
> says
> "fatal error - could not open display."
>
> All the docs say windowmaker is a window manager and as such I assume there 
> must be
> an Xwindows program to manage.  Do I have to install KDE or Gnome to use
> windowmaker?  Or is there something smaller than KDE or Gnome?
>
> Don't have a lot of space left on the 340MB disk.
>
> bruce
>
> "gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" wrote:
>
> > The prereq's rpm (the program) lists when you try to 'rpm -ivh
> > whatever.rpm' are usually files within another package (rpm) that are
> > required to install the packge in question...  for instance, Window Maker
> > is dependant on libPropList...  rather than saying "Window Maker is
> > dependant on libPropList-0.8.0-i386.rpm" (i just made up the version,
> > since i'm not sure of the recent release), it will most likely say that
> > WM is dependant on libPropList.so.2 or something a little more abstract
> > on more complex libraries...
> >
> > the easiest thing to do to get the RPMs that the prereq's are included in
> > is searching on rpmfind.net for "libPropList.so.2" or whatever it lists...
> > it should find the .rpm file you need to download and install...
> >
> > you also might want to search on freshmeat.net for rpm or gnorpm which
> > will find some great GUI programs for installing RPMs...  works very well,
> > and some (like RPMDrak in Mandrake GNU/Linux) will actually tell you which
> > rpms are required and offere to download/install them for you...
> >
> > Hope this helps...  feel free to ask again if this doesn't clarify
> > anything... it's been quite a while since i've used RH and i've just
> > recently switched to FreeBSD, so I hope I didn't get my wires crossed when
> > replying! : ^ )
> >
> > gLaNDix
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bruce Bales wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I need help on an RPM problem.
> > > I am trying to rpm WindowMaker into a small system I have installed RH 
> > > 6.2 on.
> > >
> > > rpm -ivh WindowMaker provides me with a list of prerequisites - files that
> > > windowmaker needs - starting with wmconfig (which is an rpm file) and the 
> > > rest
> > > of them lib*.so.0 files like libaudiofile.so.0 and libesd.so.0.
> > >
> > > Running rpm -ivh wmconfig gives me anothe list of lib*.so.0 files.
> > >
> > > Since these files are not rpm files, I can't install them using rpm.  I 
> > > have
> > > copied them from the cdrom to various places on the disk and rpm -ivh
> > > WindowMaker still gives me the same list of files needed.
> > >
> > > I looked at another RH 6.2 system and copied some of the files to the 
> > > location
> > > of those with the same name - no good.
> > >
> > > I copied some to a directory that is in my PATH, thinking redhat would 
> > > look
> > > there - no good.
> > >
> > > Where can I copy these files to such that redhat can find them and 
> > > complete the
> > > install?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > bruce
> > >
> > >
> > >
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