Hi.
I've a problem installing gkrellm 2.1.19 on slackware and fluxbox.

If I install the package as root, when I start gkrellm the program doesn't start, and tell me "Illegal instruction".

If I try to start it logged as user, the program tells me:

(gkrellm:5460): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

and then the program exit.

Could someone help me?

Thanks
Cheers

Illegal instruction is one hell of an error. Did you download the correct binary for your processor (ie. did you get a sparc binary or something?)

try 'whereis gkrellm' and 'locate gkrellm' to see which gkrellm binaries are available, try them one by one. It is possible that you have one gkrellm under /usr/bin , and one under /usr/local/bin , that changes from person to person (who does the package) , and you might be trying to execute the "bad" gkrellm. Try /usr/bin/gkrellm and /usr/local/bin/gkrellm

if that does not work, removepkg gkrellm-whatever && installpkg gkrellm-whatever.tgz might work.

Hi.
I've only one gkrellm installed in /usr/bin.
I've installed it with package for Slackware downloaded by linuxpackages.net
I've tried many times to remove and reinstall package, but the result is always the same

Cheers

What you need to do is follow these simple steps
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MAKE sure you are starting xfree86 as the user you are running this as although i can run weird stuff as root and it opens the display fine
its weird.
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1.)try running gkrellm as a regular user.
- login as this user
- open a terminal
- su - yourname
- the "-" there is important , it starts a brand new shell
- into that shell type gkrellm &
- if gkrellm does not start , follow my detailed installation procedure below
1.) uninstall any copies of gkrellm

2.) tell me if you got fluxbox installed correctly , seems like you did

3.) either use a package or install from source

here are some possibilites
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rpm ?
(as root)
rpm -Uvh ./gkrellm*.rpm

tgz?
(as root)
installpkg ./gkrellm*.tgz

source ?
as regular user!
tar xvzf ./gkrellm-x-x-x-x-.tar.gz
cd ./gkrellm-x-x-x-x-
./configure (youll need gtk and some compilers like GCC)
(so if you dont have them use a binary package like rpm etc...)
make
(if all goes well)
su - root
make install
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we have now insured that you installed it correctly

woops posted twice

I would say just try to install from source and it should work.
The "cant open display" error is probably cause since you started X as someone else than whose trying to run gkrellm. For example did you start x with root and tried to run gkrellm as a 'sued' user?
If so you need to give acces to X server for everyone: root@example:~# xhost+
then su - (with the '-') to user and then try to run gkrellm.
Otherwise just login as user, startx as user and run gkrellm as user.
Again i suggest you install from source. It compiles no problem on slackware 9.0
HTH
-NSKL