There is a useful but unfinished/unmaintained(?) utility for blackbox called bblaunch. I have been wishing for something like this for quite a while. I was able to get it built and running under fedora core 2, but it took me some googling and some help from friends who know C. I scripted the build up in case others find it useful. The script is below.
Pete
P.S. I apologize if this is a duplicate message. This is my third attempt at sending it.
#!/bin/sh #a script to download, configure, fix, compile, and install bblaunch #on a Fedora Core 2 system #see http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/20290 #for how I got this thing to run #There is no warrantee whatsoever regarding this script REQ_PACKAGES="xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-libs" SCRIPT_PACKAGES="wget perl tar make" error_out () { echo "You are missing one of bblaunches prerequisite packages" echo "I think you will need to install $1" echo "maybe try:" echo "yum install $1" exit 1 }
warning_out () {
echo "bblaunch might work for you, but you are missing $1,"
echo "and this script needs $1 to work"
echo "Try reading the source for this script and doing it by hand"
exit 2
}
for p in $REQ_PACKAGES
do
rpm -q $p >/dev/null 2>&1|| error_out $p
done
for p in $SCRIPT_PACKAGES
do
rpm -q $p >/dev/null 2>&1|| warning_out $p
done
cd /tmp
wget -q
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bblaunch/bblaunch_0.0.3.orig.tar.gz
tar xzf bblaunch_0.0.3.orig.tar.gz
cd bblaunch-0.0.3
./configure
perl -pi -e 's#^\s+sprintf\(launchargs\.call.*$##g' bblaunch.c
make
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo "Looks like bblaunch successfully compiled! You can do 'make install' if you
want to install it"
fi
#make install--
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