Egads! Any gurus willing to intervene here please feel free. After some success with compiling a VERY small executable (xmodemlights) I decide to try something more complex. I went to www.afterstep.org and downloaded AfterStep version 1.4.5.0 to my /downloads directory. It was a .tgz file. here is what I did. (Tell me what I did wrong.): G-unzipped and de-tarred the file: 1. linux /downloads> cp *.tgz /bin 2. linux /bin> gunzip AfterStep-1.4.5.0.tgz 3. linux /bin> tar -xvf AfterStep-1.4.5.0.tar 4. linux /bin> rm *.tar 5. linux /bin>cd AfterStep-1.4.5.0 Read the README and followed the instructions: 1. The readme said to look over the Imakefile and the configure.h file. everything seemed in order. I paid particular attention to the destination paths for the binaries and libraries. All of the paths seemed pretty straightforward: /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/share/afterstep/... ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/... 2. I ran './configure' and answered the questions. I chose English for the language and 76 color icons. 3. I ran 'xmkmf' which progressed without errors. 4. Then I ran make' 5. According to the README I ran 'make' one more time to check for errors. There were none. 6. Then I ran the following command exactly as described in the README: su root -c "make install ; make install.man" NOTE: I was logged in as root already, so I don't know if the 'su root' command was necessary, but I used it anyway. 7. Then I typed 'echo afterstep > ~/.xinitrc This made sense to me as far as creating a file called .xinitrc in the home directory of the user with the word afterstep in it. After all of this, I typed 'startx' and got the error that the command afterstep could not be found. My first guess is that I did the compile in the wrong location /bin. I also noticed that all of the binaries did compile properly, but I had to move them to their correct locations by hand. A lot of this was done by running 'startx > AFdebug 2>&1' I would then read the debug file and locate the correct paths for the AfterStep binaries. I had to create the entire /GNUstep heirarchy in the /root directory. I DID eventually get AfterStep running, although I am not certain that it is properly installed. What did I do wrong? Whould I have done the compile in another directory or logged in as a regular user instead or root? Did I miss something in the Imakefile or configure.h files? Or... did the people who put AfterStep make some assumptions that I didn't? Should I be asking this question elsewhere? Thanks for ANY help on this one *********************************************************************** George H. Lenzer Technology Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library http://www.chuhpl.lib.oh.us 2345 Lee Rd. Voice: (216) 932-3600 X274 Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 Fax: (216) 371-9148 *********************************************************************** -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
