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Date:Mon Mar 9 16:28:14 2001 
Subject:Re: Installing poplog: some bugs and some thoughts 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1010309.02 

ug55aes@cs.bham.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> I've just been re-installing Poplog after getting a new system (I'm now
> running Debian). 

> 2) What install file do I run?  INSTALL_LIKE_BHAM, INSTALL_MOTIF,
> or INSTALL_NOMOTIF?  They're all very prominent, and INSTALL.TXT
> seems to disagree with README about which you should run.

I just untarred the linux* files in directories I intended to use
as $usepop, and it all worked.  I put the motif one in one directory
and the nomotif one in another, and which one the user gets depends
on the setting of usepop in their .bashrc.  No spurious local
directories.

I agree that it would be excellent to have a shell script (or very tiny
poplog) that could check whether mo/lesstif is going to work before you
download the wrong 14Mb.

> Next again: why not put the files in linuxterm.tar.gz in with
> linux1553.tar.gz?  Admittedly I'm biased, but ved just throws up on my
> console without them.  Many newbies wouldn't know to install
> linuxterm.tar.gz, and some would assume they'd done something wrong.

It's in the linux*1553.tar.gz files that I downloaded nearly a year ago,
both the motif and nomotif ones.  If it has disappeared, it should be
put back.

> Given that downloading Red Hat 7.0 (or just
> about any other distribution, for that matter) is free, it'd probably be
> a good idea to get a more recent version - RH6.0 is a couple of years
> old now, which is an eternity in Linux time.

Cost in money is not the only reason people might have for not upgrading
an otherwise working system.  I agree that poplog ought to run on new
distributions as well as old, but I'd be unhappy to see a policy of
"you can't run poplog without upgrading to the latest".

Steve