Blackbox help

[mmiller9]

I am trying to install blackbox to give it a try and am having the following error, and am unsure what is missing I haven't been using Linux long so be gentle.
everything looks like it starts correctly in ./configure but then it gets to these lines:

checking for t_open in -lnsl... no
checking for socket in -lsocket... no
checking for x... no
configure:error: blackbox requires the Xwindows system libraries and headers.

I use kde and other desktop environments so I thought that I already had X on my system. Any help that you guys can give would be greatly appreciated. This has been a pretty fun learning experience to date .

Thanks

[mmiller9]

I am running RH7.3

[X_console]

Try manually specifying the location of the X libraries during ./configure. That is:

./configure --x-includes=DIR
./configure --x-libraries=DIR

[DiscoStoo]

5 bucks says goddam Redhat didn't install the X headers. You probably have to hunt down some "devel" package or something.

[rapture]

Yeah, Discostoo is right about not installing the neccesary devel packages. A couple days ago I installed the newest version of BB and I got the same exact errors. And wouldn't you know it, I installed the XFree86-devel pacakges. I configured it again and it worked just fine.

[mmiller9]

I appreciate what you guys told me and you were right. I did have to go back and install several Items in order to get it to config and make. Now if you don't mind I have one last question about configuring I downloaded the bbconf and built that but everytime I try to make changes it says I don't have permission to do that. These are general errors and I think that I already know the answer. All the menu files and others belong to root and as a user I can only read to them, in order to make changes I need to give write permission to my user account. Am I off the mark on this or did I simply install this the wrong?

[rapture]

Nope you're not off the mark...hehe. You're right about the permission stuff. What you might want to try doing is make a .blackbox directory for your user and have the styles in there, that way you don't have to worry about permission conflicts. Something like this:

mkdir ~/.blackbox
mkdir ~/.blackbox/styles
mkdir ~/.blackbox/backgrounds

Then you can move the blackbox menu in .blackbox and then have .blackboxrc point to where the new menu is located at, it should look something like this:

session.menuFile: /home/user_name/.blackbox/menu

Heheh..I think i went a little overboard there. Anyways...yes you're right...lol