[CF List] Need installation help (please?)

[Lyle Bergman]

Thanks so much for your reply!

I did a search of all the RPM's and traced to where the xpm libraries were
installed. Apparently, there are 4 libXpm files already installed:
libXpm.a
libXpm.so
libXpm.so.4
lib.so.4.11

All of them are in:  /usr/X11R6/lib/
So, if that is what Crossfire needs, then I guess the xpm libraries aren't
the problem.

The exact message I get when trying to invoke the configure script is:
./configure: No such file or directory

Thanks again for any help you can give.

Lyle Bergman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Lembark" <
     
     lembark at wrkhors.com
     
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To: <
     
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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CF List] Need installation help (please?)


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      -- Lyle Bergman <
      
      lbergman at mninter.net
      
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      > Hi all!
     
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      >     Crossfire looks like an excellent game, but I'm running into nothing
     
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      > but roadblocks trying to get it installed. I'm a bit of a linux newbe;
     
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      > please bear with me.
     
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      >     I'm running Red Hat linux 7.1 and want to play crossfire without
     
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      > connecting to any external server. (So I have to run the server locally,
     
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      > I believe?) I downloaded the three main tar files
     
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      > (crossfire-1.0.0.tar.gz, crossfire-client-1.0.0.tar.gz, and
     
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      > crossfire-maps-1.0.0.tar.gz) and extracted all the files. For the
     
     server,
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      > when I try ./configure, I get a message basically saying it can't find
     
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      > the file. The same happens when I try the client.
     
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      >     I checked and I have all the GTK libraries installed, however xpm is
     
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      > nowhere to be found, not even on the installation disks. I downloaded
     
     and
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      > attempted to install the xpm library version that was in the old RH 6.1
     
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      > version, but got a message saying it conflicted with some other
     
     installed
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      > packages (something like XFree86, if memory serves) and refused to
     
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      > install. Unless xpm was incorprated into another package, it seems XPM
     
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      > just isn't possible for Red Hat 7.1. I don't know if that's the source
     
     of
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      > the problem or not.
     
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      You can get the xpm libs off of the redhat distribution
     
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      media. I don't remember which of the RPM's has it. To
     
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      perfrom an exhaustive search of the RPM's on your media
     
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      if no other tools are avialable use:
     
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          mount /dev/cdrom /mnt;
     
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          cd /mnt/RedHat/RPMS;
     
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          mkdir /var/tmp/$$; # wherever you put large scratch files.
     
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          pushd /var/tmp/$$;
     
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          for file in ~-/*rpm; do
     
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              echo -e "\n$(baseneme file)\n";
     
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              rpm2cpio < $file | cpio -it
     
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          done 2>&1 | tee rpmlist;
     
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      This will leave you with a catalog of rpm file names and their
     
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      contents. less it and search for "libXpm" (notice the capital 'X').
     
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      --
     
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      Steven Lembark                               2930 W. Palmer
     
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