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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:45:12PM +1200, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org 
wrote:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/links2.tgz
> 
> The package is less than 2mb in size and it runs happily 
> on the default BL3 (no other packages are needed).  Just 
> pkg links2.tgz and it will automatically appear in your 
> swm menu (in the Internet submenu).  
> 
> I would be grateful if some of you would try it and tell
> me whether it is OK.

Can't get icewm or links2 working yet after installing them.

I have a previous version of BL3 (without the presentation program) and 
apparently you have since added a /usr/local/bin to the path, since icewm 
and links2 both installed themselves there and cannot be run unless I go 
to that directory or use the full path name.  I just added to the end of 
the PATH line in /etc/rc :/usr/local/bin - is this correct?

.xinitrc has the swm lines remarked out and icewm line added.

startx does not load icewm, just Xvesa (patterned screen with a big X).

As an experiment I typed
Xvesa &rxvt
then manually typed into the rxvt
/usr/local/bin/icewm 
Can't load libXext.so.6 
It is there in /usr/X11R6/lib/ with a symlink from X11 to X11R6.
ldd shows that icewm looks for all its X lib files in /usr/X11.
Do I need to add some other symlink so that icewm can find libraries?

links2:

In the rxvt or in console mode I type /usr/local/bin/links2 and
am told 'floating point error'.  I got that with the precompiled kermit 
and had to recompile it to avoid this error (there was a switch 
-KFLAGS=-DNOFLOAT that compiled without floating point).  

What can I do to the older loop BL3 to make it work with these two addons?
Is the kernel changed to avoid the floating point error?  If so I will 
copy it from floppy disk and try it in the loop version.  Why can't icewm 
find that library?  (And possibly all the other libraries - this was 
listed first by ldd and they are mostly in the same location). 

I am hoping to set up BL3 on hard drive after we finish 
low-level-formatting the other linux drive (2 MB - only 750 of 775 
cylinders left to format and it has only been 2 hours) and/or find a 
replacement floppy drive for the 486 laptop (which has PCMCIA modem).  

Do you have a Changelog for BL3?  

Would 200MB be overkill if I am going to be compiling on these?