That did it.

Thanks win32sux!!!! Most appreciated!

...drkstr

hehe, cool... you're very welcome... sorry i didn't remember about that earlier... like i said, my experience with linux 2.6 has been pretty limited to those ubuntu dapper live cds which i've been taking for a spin once every so often... anyhow, i'm glad you have your flash plugin sound up and running now...

Hey quick question, and sorry this is sort of off topic.

I added alias seamonkey='aoss seamonkey' to my /etc/profile but it doesn't seem to take effect unless I restart. Is there a proper way to reload the profile without logging out and then back in? I tried 'bash /etc/profile' as the user but it didn't seem to work. I would like to know this for other reasons as well since this is usually where I update my $PATH variable.

thanks!
...drkstr

you could do (as a regular user) a:that should pick-up the new alias without having to reboot and stuff...

yup that did it. I guess 'bash /etc/profile' didn't work since it doesn't have '#!/bin/bash' before it? I'll have to remember the 'source' command. I can use that for a few other things that arn't prefixed with a file descriptor (terminology?).

Thanks again!
...drkstr

you're welcome... BTW, it's called a shebang...

I get an error that libpangocairo is missing when I tried to see if I could monkey with Seamonkey 1.0.1........but I can't find a package for this library. I grabbed the latest pango and cairo packages but it's not in there. Did anyone run up against this and fix it?

it's part of the pango package, at least according to this:

http://slackware.it/en/pb/search.php...=libpangocairo

perhaps you need to run ldconfig...

well libpangocairo is in pango-1.10 which is in slackware-current and not 10.2. Is this where you got the latest pango package? Just out of curiosity though, what were you doing when you got this error? I was able to compile in 10.2 without this package. Were you trying to run the seamonkey slack-package in 10.2? If this is the case, you might need to compile from the source or update a few dependencies the slack-package was compiled with.

regards,
...drkstr

yeah, if you're using the seamonkey binary package from current, then (like drkstr said) you'd probbaly need to make sure you get your dependancies right... on the other hand if you compiled it from source on your 10.2, then things would probably be a lot smoother for you, and hassle-free...

I run pretty much a straight 10.2 system with some of my own add-ons. I haven't replaced or modified any 10.2 packages.

I wanted to try seamonkey, so I went to the Slackware package browser and found all this stuff in current/xap. I grabbed seamonkey. I ran pkgtool and installed seamonkey, but when I tried to start it I got the message about the missing libpangocairo, so I went back and grabbed pango and cairo from current/l and installed them also.

I ran ldconfig. And whenever I tried to run seamonkey it still crashed with the libpangocairo missing message. I think I may have also gotten a new gtk2, but it didn't help.

What did I miss?

I didn't consider compiling the source- how long does that take?

Thanks guys,

Rand

It takes a little while. I think it took about twice the length of a kernel compile on my system. It will also take some time configuring it since it needs more then just a standard './configure'. The mozilla development page had really good documentation on compiling mozilla from the source.

It also took me a little while to figure out how to turn the build into something I can make a slack-package out of since the seamonkey package builder does not put in everything I needed (such as header files, which are needed if you want to compile the mplayerplug-in). You can read what I did to resolve the issue earlier in this thread but it has also been suggested to just download the seamonkey source from a slakcware mirror and use the slack-build file to compile. You're on your own with this since I've never actually done this before (I prefer using the source provided by the developer).

Let me know how it turns out.

regards,
...drkstr

Yeah, I'm with you on that. If I build something from source, I get it from the devs.

so does patrick...

Hey man, I trust him enough to use his binaries. That's more than I can say for about 99.9% of everyone else