Subject: Re: startx
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Marc Warne <marc@alphapro.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/10/1998 10:51:33
In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.980407221515.984A-100000@hayward.u-net.com>
Alex Hayward <alex@hayward.u-net.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Marc Warne wrote:
> >
> > Hmm....
> >
> > 1) I don't have a /usr/X11R6.3 directory, but an X11R6.1 instead
>
> You have an old distribution. You quite possibly have statically linked
> binaries too (which take up loads more space).
Uttoh...
I got my sets from the RiscDisc 3...
> > 2) When I cd to X11R6, it says something along the lines of file not
> > found
>
> It would... You need to link to X11R6.1, not .3.
Done - and it worked!!
> > > Try jmacs as the actual command name - that's what I use. I'm not
> > > quite sure how it's all supposed to hang together, but it appears to
> > > work.
> >
> > Nope - 'jmacs: Command not found' :-(
>
> Does /usr/local/bin/jmacs exist? Does 'man joe' or 'man jmacs' work?
Well - I added /usr/local/bin to the path, an 'setenv'd the editor to
jmacs, and it all works!
> > > PS - If this doesn't work then you'd probably be best reinstalling all
> > > the X sets.
> >
> > What? For the 10th time?!?! ;-)
>
> If you've got more recent X sets it might be worth installing those
> instead?
I don't think I've got any more recent sets...I've got ones on the Datafile
PD CD 4 (which is older than the RiscDisc), oh - and the Clan Aug '97 CD.
Is it possible to install the RedHat sets onto RiscBSD and still have them
working? It it worth trying?
All the best,
Marc Warne
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