Support Requests item #755562, was opened at 2003-06-16 16:46
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Category: Compilation or Installation Issue
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Red Hat Linux 9.0
Initial Comment:
Can someone please provide line-by-line specific
instructions to integrate Blackbox 0.65 into a full
install of Red Hat Linux 9.0? I have been working on
this work weeks and can't get it to integrate (I can
get it to compile properly). Thanks.
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Comment By: Shawn Kirk (zentsang)
Date: 2003-12-11 16:12
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I am experiencing the same problem. I downloaded the tar.gz
... uncompressed it ... ./configure ... make generated error
1 at the end and su - 'make install' wouldn't complete
successfully so I'm still without Blackbox.
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Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon)
Date: 2003-10-29 20:59
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the easiest way to set up blackbox under redhat 9 is
init 3 [if you're running under runlevel 5]
if not, exit from X and do:
swichdesk twm
and then go back with
switchdesk (gnome|kde) [this will create the ~/.Xclients
and ~/.Xclients-default files.]
vim ~/.Xclients-default
[comment out the startkde or gnome-session exec line, and add
exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox
save and exit
sudo vim /etc/inittab
:%s/id:5:/id:3:/
save and exit
now when you boot, you'll be booting to the console not the
pretty login, but it's easy enough to run startx from there.
If you want GDM/KDM/XDM login then it starts getting tricky.
However, this works, and works fine.
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Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq)
Date: 2003-10-28 21:45
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Had problems when I made the files.. hehe..oops
chown and chmod is a must when your su creating files.
chmod --reference=./Xclients.gnome ./Xclients.blackbox
X11 error log for users in Rh9
/home/~user/.xsession-errors
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-10-24 17:06
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I think the easier way to do it is with .xinitrc, in your home directory.
You can have other window managers "commented" out with the `#'
character
For me it's:
#gnome-session
#exec /usr/local/bin/whiteBOX
#startkde
exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox
xset +dpms
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Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq)
Date: 2003-10-24 16:03
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Ok I edited all those files but I get session error when I
attempt to login.. It fails (less than 10 seconds). Where
would that error log be so I can get more details about why
its not loading??
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Comment By: tamara (novelnous)
Date: 2003-10-18 12:45
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edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession by adding blackbox line
(back up the old Xsession file)
.
.
.
# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific
environment
case $# in
.
.
kde|kde1|kde2)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT
/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde"
;;
blackbox)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT
/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.blackbox
"
;;
twm)
# fall back to twm
.
.
.
make sure it looks like the other window manager is in the
file, the editor here isn't letting me make long enough lines.
then go to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
and add a file called blackbox which looks like the other
files in the directory... basically:
#!/bin/bash
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession blackbox
then go to
/usr/share/apps/switchdesk/
and make a file called Xclients.blackbox containing whatever
you want
to do on startup, but especially the 'exec blackbox' line:
xscreensaver -no-splash &
exec bbpager &
exec bbkeys -i &
exec blackbox
that should work. you might wanna install bbpager and such
if you want to use them. i did this a little while ago, so i
hope i didn't miss anything.
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Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq)
Date: 2003-10-18 12:09
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rh9.0
After installing all the dev .rpms Xfree/freetype/font then I
made the install..
tar -xvzf blackbox-0.65*.tar.gz
./configure --enable-nls=no
make
make install
Installed bbkeys & bbconfig
But how do I access it with a user?
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Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq)
Date: 2003-10-18 10:11
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Ok.. Im a newb.. can someone please point me to a site that
has documentation for step by step instructions on what I
need to install it on rh 9.0 and how to set new desktop
enviroments on a linux system?
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/blackbox/blac
kbox-0.65.0-fr4.src.rpm
I found the rpm but once I execute the rpm then what.. how
do I change my user to that desktop etc?
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Comment By: Gaurang Khetan (grkhetan)
Date: 2003-10-07 03:06
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Check out the blackbox rpm present on http://freshrpms.net
for Redhat 9.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-10-07 02:59
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You can try the blackbox rpm available on the
http://freshrpms.net site.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-10-01 21:37
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I CAN'T get it to compile properly, what am I missing?
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Comment By: tamara (novelnous)
Date: 2003-09-03 22:37
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thanks guys it worked! looks like i missed xfree86-devel
somehow...
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Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon)
Date: 2003-09-03 21:25
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oops, I put rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs twice in the
'progression of events'.
my bad. you don't need to do it twice. :-)
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Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon)
Date: 2003-09-03 21:23
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on the subject of LANG, my /etc/sysconfig/i18n is set to this:
LC_ALL="C"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
the LC_COLLATE is redundant but is there to remind me to
make sure it stays set to C if/when I upgrade.
I had no problems compiling blackbox on this system but then
I used ./configure --disable-nls.
on the subject of other compiling issues, yes you do need a
goodly number of *-devel packages installed on the system.
For redhat 9 you can do (up2date --showall |sort >9allpkgs;
rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs)
Once you have these two files you can extract from them
anything you need, and diff the results.
so, here's the progression of events:
up2date --showall |sort >9allpkgs
rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs
egrep '^\w+-devel.*' 9allpkgs >all-devel
less all-devel; # just checking :)
rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs
egrep '^\w+-devel.*' instpkgs > inst-devel
less inst-devel; # just checking again :)
vimdiff inst-devel all-devel
or if you're in X: gvim -d inst-devel all-devel
or plain-old diff -y inst-devel all-devel |less
This should help you more clearly ascertain which *-devel
packages you are missing and/or might need and which you can
then up2date -i package1 package2 etc :)
hope this helps.
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Comment By: Jamin W. Collins (jamincollins)
Date: 2003-09-03 20:44
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Sounds like you don't have the xlib development package
installed. Not completely sure what it's called in RH 9.x
This might be the package your looking for:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm
Once it's installed try the configure again.
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Comment By: tamara (novelnous)
Date: 2003-09-03 20:33
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I tried to get it compile but i can't get beyond the
configuration part.
i haven't had problems with other linux distros but with
RedHat 9.0
i get :
checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no
configure: error: Could not find XOpenDisplay in -lX11.
any ideas?
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Comment By: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh)
Date: 2003-06-24 21:06
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before you run configure do this:
export LANG=en_US
export LC_ALL=en_US
The RH default is en_US.UTF8 which confuses the gnu
translation program.
We try to make blackbox compile 100% silently so any
warnings seen are considered low priority bugs.
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Comment By: Bruce Smith (a_space_monkey)
Date: 2003-06-24 19:11
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Thanks to a tip at http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/rpm-
list/2003-April/003924.html
I tried "./configure --enable-nls=no"
and then "make" learned to play nice, compiling without errors
(plenty of warnings but who cares about those?).
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-06-24 18:48
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Blackbox 0.65 won't compile under RH9 for me either.
./configure runs without errors
make coughs up at:
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/apps/blackbox/blackbox-
0.65.0/nls/es_ES'
Translation.m:3: invalid character: message ignored
^ the above line is repeated for lines 4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 19,
20, ... [and so on]...,182
My Redhat install is US-English. I don't speak spanish. Why
is it trying to read the spanish translation file?
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-06-18 10:37
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I don't know if your issue is the same. I needed a small
footprint Window manager and I liked old versions of
BlackBox, so I gave it a shot.
Below is a sample of the errors I am getting. Note I have
compiled setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" and "LANG=". The output
of the errors vary depending on the values of this variable.
Unfortunately I have no time to check on this deeper, so I
just picked another WM.
JUAN
Translation.m:186: invalid character: message ignored
make[3]: *** [blackbox.cat] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/fr_FR'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0/nls'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] blackbox-0.65.0]#
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Comment By: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh)
Date: 2003-06-17 15:28
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Sorry, this is not very clear. What is it you want,
specifically?
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