Re: AfterStep 1.4 startx problems

J.D. Jordan (jdj5e@virginia.edu)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:50:48 -0400 (EDT)


Er, corection, its pinky.wtower.com in /pub  oops.

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, J.D. Jordan wrote:

> 
> Manu,
> 	Try using the RPM from wtower.pinky.org, either the
> AfterStep-1.4.5.55N6-1.src.rpm or the AfterStep-1.5pre3-1.src.rpm if you
> are adventurous =). Then you need to recompile the src RPM's you can't use
> the binary ones as they are for RH 5.1, just rpm --rebuild <RPM> and then
> install the RPM from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ (I think thats the right
> path, I'm not on my box right now to check).
> 
> JD
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Emmanuel Lambert wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > What I am trying to instal is the RPM from afterstep.org; I am trying to
> > installed it on an out-of-the-box installation of Redhat 4.2 and it does
> > not work. Anyway; no-one seems to have heard from this problem, so I guess
> > the problem will be my system; I'll try to find out about it myself and
> > stop bothering you people.
> > 
> > Manu
> > 
> > 
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