Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > At 08:06 PM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> > >> At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > >> >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of > >> >> is not applicable to X? (star

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of > >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never > >> ran any configuration utility for X and

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-11 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never >> ran any configuration utility for X and I loaded the olvwm package with >> apt-

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-11 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 11:47 PM 11/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: > >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never >> ran any confi

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > > At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: > >On Sun Nov 8, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > >> Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured > >> out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file > >> first. > >>

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-10 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 10:29 PM 11/9/98 -0500, Immanuel Yap wrote: >On Sun Nov 8, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: >> Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured >> out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file >> first. >> >> However, now I have a new problem: >

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-09 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file first. However, now I have a new problem: olvwm: cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) Now what? In UNIX, I would just type "setenv DISPLAY maui:0.

Re: Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Immanuel Yap
On Tue Nov 3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: > I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily > adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to > invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look > in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is

Repost - First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl

First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-03 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is there. Apparently, the environment setup is not compl