Blackbox Patches

[z0mbix]

I am currently running bb on my laptop with MD8.0. I installed it off the MD CD(rpm). I have downloaded the taskbar tarball patch by Ignacio E Thayer and see that the patch needs to be run before compiling bb.

Does this mean that I have to uninstall the bb rpm, d/l the bb tarball, run the patch and then compile bb? Or, is there another way to add the patch when using the bb rpm?

Thanks :confused:

[Toi Mak]

Originally posted by cheeky_zombie:
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Does this mean that I have to uninstall the bb rpm, d/l the bb tarball, run the patch and then compile bb?

Thanks :confused:</STRONG>

Bingo.

I tried that patch after seeing X_console's screenshot and it's a cool feature (although I don't use bb anymore). If you edit your style files a lot (I did) you also might like this patch (http://blackbox.thelinuxcommunity.org/downloadpatch.html?patchid=24) too.

Makes blackbox ignore style files ending with a tilde (~) when parsing directories referenced by the [stylesdir] and [stylesmenu] tags

It make for a cleaner styles menu. :)

[X_console]

Yeah, uninstall the RPM and rebuild it. It's not that hard. Latest version of Blackbox is 0.61.1. So download it and put it in /tmp (along with the patch):

tar xvzf blackbox-0.61.1.tar.gz
patch -p0 &lt; blackboxpatch.v6
cd blackbox-0.61.1
./configure && make && make install && make clean

That should do it.

[z0mbix]

Thanks guys, I now have a brand spanking new blackbox with all the trimmings like bbmail/bbconf/bbkeys/bbpager etc.

:D