Re: Trying to install Afterstep

MJohnson (hekate@intergate.bc.ca)
Mon, 18 May 1998 13:52:28 -0700 

You say you untar it?? are you dealing with an RPM or a .tar.gz. If you have
the RPM you don't need to untar it you use RPM to install it. If you have a
tar.gz  (unless you're on slakware and using one of their tar.gz packages)
then you have to build the source. It sounds like you tried to use rpm on a
source package rather than the RPM... or am I totally misunderstanding
here??
-----Original Message-----
From: TexAgg01 <TexAgg01@aol.com>
To: AfterStep@eosys.com <AfterStep@eosys.com>
Date: Monday, May 18, 1998 1:22 PM
Subject: Trying to install Afterstep


>Hello---
>
>I just got introduced to the linux world a couple of weeks ago.  Well, by
>tinkering with it on my own using resources from the internet, I was able
to
>complete an installation of RedHat 5.0.  Now, I'm trying to install
Afterstep
>1.45.  I'm able to untar and all of that, but when I type "rpm -i
<filename>"
>it installs (or at least I think that it does) then when I start up x, I
get a
>message that says that there is no such file or directory.  Am I installing
it
>right?  And if so, what am I doing wrong when I start it up.  I've been
told
>to add an .xinitrc file and add the line "exec afterstep" to it...but that
>doesn't work either.  Then when I delete that line, my original X won't
start
>up.  And since I couldn't figure out how to fix that, I went ahead and
>installed RH all over again.  Needless to say, I've gotten pretty good at
>installing RH.  Now I just need to figure out how to install Afterstep.  I
>would appreciate any help that I could get.  Thanks
>
>Eric
>
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