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nerrollus
01-30-2002, 06:58 PM
Last night I reinstalled RedHat 7.1 without Gnome or KDE. (Just the generic X) I tried to install BlackBox and it said it couldn't install because the X libs and headers weren't installed. I popped the CD back in, did an upgrade, and reinstalled X. Tried it again and got the same error message.
If I try to do the X command it gives an error message and says X is already running.
What am I doing wrong?
mdwatts
01-30-2002, 07:08 PM
Ensure
/usr/X11R6/lib
and
/usr/lib
are in /etc/ld.so.conf and run (as root) ldconfig in any case.
That may fix the problem.
nerrollus
01-30-2002, 07:14 PM
Ok, I'll give that a shot when I get home and see what happens. Thanks for the info.
TacKat
01-30-2002, 07:14 PM
Also make sure that you have the XFree86-devel rpm installed.
mdwatts
01-30-2002, 08:13 PM
Your welcome. Just remember that I'm a newbie (junior grasshopper) so I don't know much.
nerrollus
01-30-2002, 08:42 PM
Originally posted by TacKat:
<STRONG>Also make sure that you have the XFree86-devel rpm installed.</STRONG>
Hrm.. How do you check to make sure than a certain RPM is installed?
TacKat
01-30-2002, 08:49 PM
I'm unfamiliar with Redhat's software management, so I can't tell you for sure. If you know how you would go about installing Redhat software from the CD's, there should be a procedure somewhat similar to that for uninstalling it. Check the list of apps you can uninstall to see if it's on there.
Sorry I'm kinda of vague. Maybe we can get a Redhat expert to comment.
Edit: Okay, I did a little searching and I believe this will work. If you run "rpm -q XFree86-devel" on the command line, it should give you the full name of the package along with version number. If it doesn't then it's not installed (or not called XFree86-devel). To install it, you need to find the file somewhere on the Redhat material and use "rpm -i <filename>".
[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: TacKat ]
nerrollus
01-30-2002, 11:02 PM
Right on, thanks again for the information. Hopefully I'll be able to conqure it tonight when I get home. hehe ;)
It's always been a dream of mine to run Blackbox with no desktop manager. hehe ;p
nerrollus
01-30-2002, 11:33 PM
BTW. Do you have to install Blackbox into a certain directory, like sbin, or will anywhere work just as well?
TacKat
01-30-2002, 11:40 PM
It typically goes in the /usr/local tree, but that's not a requirement.
nerrollus
01-30-2002, 11:42 PM
Heh, ok. Thanks again.. ;)