Hi Guys

Going nuts trying to figure out how to get those two files (libXinerama.so.1 and libesd.so.0). I need them to finish the dependencies for Konqueror and KDE. Not sure why they're not in the basic downloads for them, but currently lost in Dependency Hell.

All help muchly appreciated,

Mike (pacranch)

libesd is from the 'esound' pkg:
http://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/slackware/....32-i486-1.tgz
libXinerama should be in the Xfree86 base pkg, but I don't find it with the Slackware packahge browser for Slack-9.1 -only the libXinerama.a libs for compiling.
You are using packages for Slack-9.1 right?

Got the esd part downloaded and installed, but any ideas on how to get the libXinerama.so.1 file? Anybody trying to run Konqueror or KDE (obviously related) should be running into the same brickwall. What's kind of annoying is that suposedly these files are in either the KDE or the x86 stuff, but they aren't.

Idea?

Mike (pacranch)

PS: Yes I'm sticking with Slackware 9.1 so things match easier.

Have you made sure to install all the missing packages from the /a and /l directories first? Plus, after installing any libraries, be sure and run(as root):
ldconfig

You can use slocate to catalog your files quickly:
slocate -u
then:
slocate libXinerama
(The slackware package browser shows libXinerama.a in the X-11-devel package, but that's for compiling) You may have libXinerama.so.? but it is not being found by ldconfig.
Check your /etc/ld.so.conf and make sure there is an entry for the /opt/kde/lib and /usr/lib/qt/lib -you do have QT installed also?

There has to (absolutely, positively) be a simpler answer than to randomly install all missing packages from /a/ and /l/. Last time I tried that I wrecked my installation by overwriting a custom file. Surely someone must know which package will install the missing libXinerama.so.1 (or something simiar enough to do an slink that works).

I do NOT have any libXinerama of any flavor anywhere. All config files correctly point ( /opt/kde/lib and /usr/lib/qt/lib).

Back to the annoying part: I never deleted libXinerama, I doubt I'm the first person using Amigo to install KDE. Surely someone else has had this problem before AND solved it.

Mike (pacranch)

Have you treid running it after installing esound? Somtimes a program will run after all, even without certain libs(like for certain options).

libxinerama isn't usually a hard dependency since most systems don't use it(that's for multiple monitors)

As to installing missing packages -Amigo-2.0 can only be so slim because many supporting programs and libraries were left out that are used by more 'advanced' software like KDE and GNOME.

KDE has most everything it needs in it's base and libs packages, along with QT. But still, there a few things lacking from the /a, /ap, /l and /n package directories. You need to install 'bc' and 'mhash' and nearly everything in /l if you are wanting GNOME or GTK-2. The best way to find out what goes in a regular Slackware installation would be to look at the tagfiles in each of the above package directories. Install every package which has 'ADD' or 'REC'.
Amigo-XP comes with basic KDE as a single-file installation, including the K3B CD burner.

I'm seriously considering springing for Amigo XP (a mere $15) 'cause of the newer kernel and the built in KDE support. I'm without a working Konqueror installation at the moment over Phat XP being a pile (some sort of weird hardware thing, except Phat 4 ran fine, so ???). Does Amigo XP come with most of the compiler programs, I do a lot of VRML and there's no good package (.tgz) for that, so need to roll my own for .wrl files?

Thanks,

Mike (pacranch)

Amigo-XP makes having KDE as easy as unzipping a single file! After unpacking the main installation file you just unpack the KDE zip file into a folder there. When Amigo-XP runs the first time it finds KDE and configures it all to be available. KDE provides an easy way to do this since it installs most of itself into a separate directory (/opt). The QT libararies are part of the main installation. And you can run KDE programs under any of the included Window Managers without running the full KDE desktop. Give the ROX desktop I've 'designed' a good try and you may never go back to KDE.

As far as compilers, you can see from the package list:
http://amigolinux.org/amigoxp/XP-pkglist.htm
that both the gcc and g++ compilers are included along with most of the tools you'd need. I didn't include the gobjc compiler in the end -having that would make it possible to recompile everything that's included in the distro. Objective C is used by WindowMaker and the WDM Login/Display manager.
Of course, you can add in the packages from Slackware for fortran, pascal, etc.
I don't know about VRML... if there's a compiler for it written in C or C++, etc, you should be able to compile it easy.
Amigo-XP includes the package manger PACO, which was written for LinuxFromScratch. Very handy way to manage programs you compile on your machine.