windowmaker fails

[Chuck Mead]

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Daniel Bahena wrote:

| Hi
|
| I downloaded WindowMaker-0.80.2.tar.gz untared it, then /configure
| make and finally checkinstall (this creates an rpm from my build and
| installs it, that way I don't loose my rpm database, if you want to
| know more from checkinstall check
| http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/)
|
| Any how, everything went ok, then I go to my console, type echo exec
| wmaker > .xinitrc and then startx, and this is what I get
|
| [kwame at padawan kwame]$ startx Using authority file
| /home/kwame/.Xauthority Writing authority file
| /home/kwame/.Xauthority
|
| XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Fedora Core 1: 4.3.0-42) Release Date: 15
| August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build
| Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-2.ELsmp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 24
| October 2003 Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
|
| Before reporting any problems, please make sure you are using the
| most recent XFree86 packages available from Red Hat by checking for
| updates at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata or by using the Red Hat
| Network up2date tool.  If you still encounter problems, please file
| bug reports in the XFree86.org bugzilla at http://bugs.xfree86.org
| and/or Red Hat bugzilla at http://bugzilla.redhat.com
|
| Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
| (bhcompile at daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red
| Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003 Markers: (--)
| probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from
| command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE)
| error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file:
| "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Nov  8 13:20:06 2003 (==) Using
| config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" wmaker: error while loading shared
| libraries: libwraster.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
| file or directory
|
| waiting for X server to shut down
|
| [kwame at padawan kwame]$
|
| BUT I do have libwraster.so.2
|
| [kwame at padawan kwame]$ locate libwraster.so.2
| /home/kwame/software/WindowMaker-0.80.2/wrlib/.libs/libwraster.so.2.2.0
|  /home/kwame/software/WindowMaker-0.80.2/wrlib/.libs/libwraster.so.2
| /usr/local/lib/libwraster.so.2.2.0 /usr/local/lib/libwraster.so.2
| [kwame at padawan kwame]$
|
| Any help? I really like gnome 2.4 but I also love WindowMaker
|
| Best wishes
|
| -- Kwame | Linux, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good,
| the bad and the | ugly...) yahoo! ID get_1 ICQ 108927917
|
Make sure /usr/local/lib is in your /etc/ld.so.conf and then run
ldconfig as root.

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csm
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