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Date:Mon Nov 11 14:24:17 2003 
Subject:Re: Debian Stable Install 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:1031111.02 

John,

Many thanks for trying this out.

>   I had to make a couple of links.
>
> ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /lib/libtermcap.so

I wonder whether running ldconfig, or rebooting the machine after
installing termcap would have done that anyway?

On linux there's a file /etc/ld.so.conf which lists files containing
libraries. Then according to the man file, running ldconfig creates
links and updates the /etc/ld.so.cache file.

I presume that would have solved the problem encountered by many people
with motif on linux, namely that /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.something
exists, but not /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so

Someone has recently reported this problem with libXt, libX11 and
libXext.

It's a pity we can't pass a flag to 'ld' telling it to use any version
it can find if the .so file is not there.

> ln -s /home/agley/poplog/local/setup/bin/poplog.sh /usr/local/bin/poplog

I guess I should switch the instllation script to do this instead of
linking to setup/bin/poplog, which assumes that csh or tcsh is present.

>
>   In /home/agley/startup inside the bham+nondefault+bash file you say to
>
> cp poplog poplog.sh /home/agley/poplog/local/setup/bin/poplog
>
> but this is not a directory, perhaps you meant
>  /home/agley/poplog/local/setup/bin

yes, apologies.

> this is where the old poplog and poplog.sh scripts are ? That is what I did.
>
>     Doing without Motif means not having non-free or contrib in my apt
> sources.list though searching in the file browser is much more
> complicated.

Which file browser is that? If you use Lesstif it should not be very
different from motif.

There's a rather weird experimental file browser as part of the rclib
package, used by the rcmenu package. If you do this in Ved or XVed,
after installing the bham stuff:
	uses rcmenu

then
	ENTER menu

you should get a menu panel that stays up until you click on 'Dismiss'
If you click on the Editor(Ved) button, you'll get a 'Ved Ops' menu.
If you click on Browsefiles it runs the browser defined in
the procedure menu_choosefile2, defined in

	$poplocal/local/rcmenu/menus/menu_editor.p

It's very primitive still, but highly extendable.

>     As usual I needed C/C++ development from tasksel and xlib-dev and
> termcap-compat packages.

Thanks for helping to check things out.

I guess at some stage a debian version of poplog should be in the main
repository.

Aaron