Re: /root/.xinitrc: afterstep: command not found:

Keith (nfn11988@naples.net)
Thu, 14 May 1998 17:24:14 -0400 

Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Brett Taylor wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Keith wrote:
> >
> > > I did what you said but now when I type startx it comes back with the
> > > following message:
> > > /root/.xinitrc: /usr/AfterStep-1.4.5.55N/afterstep is a directory.
> > >
> > > It seems as though something is not all there.
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > > When I setup AfterStep and ran the 'make' command I noticed a couple of
> > > error messages scrolled by they are as follows:
> >
> > > X11/xpm.h: no such file or directory
> > >
> > > ld: cannot open -1xpm: no suchfile or directory
> >                   ^^^^^^
> >
> > I hope this is -lxpm.  (note the 'l' not '1')
> >
> > Did you run the configure script?  Do you have a /usr/X11/lib/X11/xpm.h
> > file (I think this is where things are - there may be slight differences
> > as I'm running FreeBSD and things aren't in exactly the same places).
> 
> FreeBSD and Linux and most other UNIXes at least put their X headers in
> the same place (it's an X standard, not a UNIX flavor standard, or so I
> think.).  Many Linux distributions, at least, don't install xpm stuff by
> default, so that could explain it.

What is the xpm stuff and how do I install it.

Keith


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