Submitted by jchitra on Tue, 04/02/2002 - 04:52. General Questions
i have installed redhat 6.2 linux in my p.c can i install openmotif-2_1_30-8_i386.rpm. when i insall ,it reports onlymajor number <=3 is supported by this RPM.what should i do?
Wed, 06/27/2012 - 12:18
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open motif/redhat 6.2
hai
That is a redhat supplied version of open motif. Looks like you need to upgrade your RPM version, or download a new copy.
You mean the OpenMotif .rpm is a newer version of rpm than your rpm pakcacge manager itself can handle, I assume.
You can update rpm but that isn`t as easy as you think. You`ll also have to update other libs too. These other libs will want a newer version of rpm to install just like it said for OpenMotif. Once again you`ll be stuck.
I`m ticked at RH and Mandrake for their incompatible packaging games - so I switched to Debian `the mother`. Deb`s packager does rpm packages (incl. openmotif) and it Deb has the real rpm package manager as well. Debian Potato is equivalent to RH 6.2 version wise (but its much more meticulously assembled).
Hey - rh 7.2 isn`t that bad ) Maybe just use that. Well, no, it is bad. I put it on three client machines and it, ahem, it fucked me three times. Two of them weren`t my machines and I had to go explaining to people why X Windows stopped working and had glitches on the desktop and that other linux`es weren`t like that.
The other way to go is download the source and compile it. Its not as hard as you think once youv`e compiled anything in linux the first time.
The new OpenMotif 2.2 release has autoconfig. Its really really easy to compile - but again you might have to update for autoconfig. Again, 2.2 is new so your autoconfig may not be up to par. Its worth a try though.
At last - OpenMotif 2.1.30 is a .tar.gz -- you can download and compile that. It should compile on anything anywhere.
The trick there is read RELNOTES and do what it says (make a directory, lndir, ...).
As well, set the two or three environment variables it says to in a shell. Export the vars then make world in that same shell (so your vars won`t disappear).
I have a script that does the RELNOTES for you for 2.1.30 if you really need to see exactly what needs to be done.
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I`ll go ahead and say that Gnome 1.2 is a better desktop if your looking for whistles and bells like multiple screens and pretty logins.
Mwm is more your style if you prefer stablility over all else and you have some valued (expensive) applications to run. In these cases rebooting the computer due to changing a font is just not liked )
hello mr.sparky
icould get u`r message.but howto download openmotif1.30.
tar.gz. can u please mailme the link so that i will compile and use it. i have redhat 6.2 version.only .i can`t update to 7.2.
thank u
I don`t understand the question.
I assume if your using the forum your able to donwload.
???
Hey,
I have a compiled version that might work for you. It should let you run motif apps and a use mwm.
Infact - I just launched it over a network and it works over the network (it provided motif from a slackware box on a debian box - as if mwm was installed on the debian box. Command `xhost` is what allows permission for this.) (BTW mwm can be installed on another machine across a network and be used -- neat, huh?)
You can find it at
ftp.hend.net/pub/not_openmotif2.1.30.tar.gz
- about 4MB download
- (i386 only)
- (libraries a close call as to whether yours are new enough. 99% I beleive are. Its the 1% I`m not sure about. But hey - I tried )
- I`ll leave it there for a while (many weeks) - but not forever.
NOTE extract it in a subdirectory then move it to /usr/dt -- do not extract absolute path. If it says I can`t find libraries add /usr/dt/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf. Use command `ldconfig` so the location of these libs are picked up.
I built it a while back especially so that OpenMotif could run fine *without* being integrated into the system files (all files are installed under /usr/dt and you have to ln the libs yourself). It runs on the box even though it was actually just copied their (but ln for lib files may be required).
The reason it works is because the binaries expect all the files to be located under /usr/dt and *not* integrated into the /usr/X11R6 subdirectories. This is how Sun and SCO install Motif, if my eyes didn`t deceive me, which is why I compiled it that way.
Your *real* problem is that the binaries in the rpm you have are linked agains libraries you don`t have installed - and one of them I beleive is
libc.so.6 is needed by openmotif-devel-2.1.30-1_ICS
You need knowledge about properly assembling a distribution to get into updating the base libraries. I don`t suggest you do that.
I think your choices are
2) compile openmotif yourself (pref. ver 2.2). You`ll need approx. 200MB diskspace for this.
3) Ask someone if they can repackage the rpm as an older version for you (if the newer version allows repackaging as an older version - I can`t remember) and get it back to you so you can use your existing rpm to install it.
Have fun,
John Hendrickson
PS
If you have problems with logging into ftp site itself e-mail me at
jdh@hend.net
I do not check mail every day, so be a little patient.
Hi vjchithra,
I notice in my logs you at least tried the download.
Unfortunately - you were doing so on one of the few nights in the year I may have been takings services up and down to replace critical software.
On the other hand only ports 21 (ftp) and 20 (ftp-data) are open. Your software might have used PASV to get a random port but my firewall will not allow random ports to be polled. Try using regular old `ftp`.
Hope you didn`t get bumped during the dl. If so - it certainly wasn`t intentional.
Like I said - if you have problems just repost.
Have Fun,
John Hendrickson