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Wallex
08-23-2002, 11:14 AM
I ./configured enlightenment without getting a single message of error (except for something about not having enough trouts in the refrigerator or something like that), and I make it, make install it, set it up in the start up menu, I run enlightenment.. and what happens? I get.... Um... the worst graphics ever. No flashy stuff, it's all in ... what, four colors? I mean, the windows decorations are nonexistance, and when I click around the 'help file' the window does not gets cleaned (which ends up in lots of pages displayed at the same time which makes reading impossible). I know something's wrong when I open a menu and the 'background' of it looks totally messed up. I am wondering.. what could be the cause of this? Did some of the dependencies was maybe correctly installed? I have all the dependencies installed (even the optional ones). I really wanted to a see a beautiful windows manager, but instead I see the worst... obviously 'something' went wrong in the installation?
Wallex
08-23-2002, 11:40 PM
Guess what I found? A bunch of 'error' messages when I tried starting enlightenment... and all of them saying that 'I have this version of such library but enlightenment was compiled for this other version', and guess what? All the libraries I have are of versions GREATER than the ones requested on install time! What the hell? If I don't have the 'exact version' for which enlightenment was made, enligthenment will just not work!? This is like.. completely wrong, you know?
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I installed Enlightenment from the .tar.gz file, so I compiled it from the source, I can't see how it was compiled for the wrong versions... this is plain weird.
fancypiper
08-23-2002, 11:51 PM
Maybe Red Carpet (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_red_carpet/download.html) has a channel for your distro. Install was a breeze with that for me (Redhat 7.2).
Timothy L. Miller
08-24-2002, 05:07 AM
Maybe it's trying to access the exact file from previous versoin? If so, just ln -s newversion oldversion. Then try it again, see if it helped any...no guarantees here, of course, I never really developed a taste for enlightenment.
Wallex
08-25-2002, 12:27 AM
Well.. I guess I'll have to try red-carpet. I can't lose much if I 'reinstall' older versions of these dependencies I need (is not like I can notice the difference between these versions anyway)
Wallex
08-25-2002, 03:15 PM
I've downloaded enlightenment three times.. the first right from the source and I got the aforementioned problems. The second time from the source rpm, and red-carpet wouldn't like it. The third was the binary 386 rpm package, red-carpet liked it, it installed fnlib (which I thought I already had...) and now when I start enlightenment, the graphic are ok, but the first window I get is a 'segmentation fault' telling me I am trying to access some area I don't have access to. I think I am not meant to be enlightenmented. Oh well... when I get more time I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling it to see if I get any luck (afterall, what I was previously doing was to install over the old installation).