Re: AfterStep 1.4 startx problems

Simon Drabble (simon@fiddletrudge.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:50:44 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Emmanuel Lambert wrote:

> > Type this at the prompte
> > locate afterstep
> > Look for the line something like
> > /usr/X11/bin/afterstep
> > This is the full path to afterstep, so either use this in full in
> > ~/.xinitrc or set your path to include /usr/X11/bin (or whatever)
> 
> I am sorry to say that this does not help.
> I keep getting this error "/usr/share/locale: No such file or directory"
> 
> This is weird. Why doesn't Afterstep run out-of-the-box under redhat 4.2 ?

IIRC, RedHat 4.2 ships with a product called Afterstep which is NOT "The
Real Afterstep". They stopped this with 5.0 after receiving a few
complaints (needless to say). My advice would be to download AfterStep
from www.afterstep.org and start from scratch.


Simon.

> 
> I tried to rebuild the RPM source code package, but then he starts asking
> for patches which he cannot find and stuff like that...
> What can I do ???
> 
> Emmanuel
>  
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