[CF List] Need installation help (please?)

[Steven Lembark]

-- Lyle Bergman <
     
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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.
     
     
You can get the xpm libs off of the redhat distribution
media. I don't remember which of the RPM's has it. To
perfrom an exhaustive search of the RPM's on your media
if no other tools are avialable use:

    mount /dev/cdrom /mnt;
    cd /mnt/RedHat/RPMS;
    mkdir /var/tmp/$$; # wherever you put large scratch files.
    pushd /var/tmp/$$;
    for file in ~-/*rpm; do
        echo -e "\n$(baseneme file)\n";
        rpm2cpio < $file | cpio -it
    done 2>&1 | tee rpmlist;

This will leave you with a catalog of rpm file names and their
contents. less it and search for "libXpm" (notice the capital 'X').


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