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i just installed mandrake 9.1 on two of my computers and love it, but im getting tired of kde, i mean i tried spicing it up with super karamba but i saw a screenshot of fluxbox and loved it.
so i d/l fluxbox's tarbell and i installed it (./configure, make, root-> make install) and i had no problems. then i said to myself now what? i tried going to run and typing fluxbox and it didnt give me a "not found" bow but it didnt do anything else either just kinda sat there staring back at me.
so i looked at the documentation online. 2 hours later i decided i have gotten nowhere, and gave up on that. so i ask now for some1, any1's help on this.
Mandrake needs ./configure --prefix=/usr , otherwise the package is installed in /usr/local/share/fluxbox. Try ./configure --help for more info, and also check if there's an autogen.sh script to ./autogen.sh before ./configure.
Try installing a 0.1.14 .rpm as that'll add the entries to your login manager, and then make install will write over those installed files with the newly compiled ones.
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