1. Re: XMOTOR CORRECTION
- Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefrog.com> Feb 13, 2006
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- Last edited Feb 14, 2006
ChrisBurch2 wrote: > > Bernie Ryan wrote: > > > > > > Chris: > > I don't want anyone to mess around with root copying > > especially if they are new users. > > I understand that totally - Linux is frightening enough when you get under > the hood. > > But xmotor doesn't work out of the box on SuSE 9.1 + systems, for this > reason you should give poeple the option of running the installer as root, > so that it will fix the system to put the libraries in a place that works. > It may work on RH systems, but at least a new user installing eu on a SuSE > (much easier to install IMHO) system, could just run the 'copier' as root to > get it working. This would be invisible to the user. > > Yes its an irritating extra layer of complication. Chris: I will try a generic install of SuSE on one of my other systems. I have version of SuSE which I once had installed but I had problems with it. I think that YAST may have something to do with how X-Windows setup is set up. I found that RedHat is very stable as you will notice that is what RDS uses. Igor said xmotor worked on Linux Mandrake 10.0 ok Bernie My files in archive: motor.eu w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.exw Can be downloaded here: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan