Corel Linux

[Evan Hoff]

Chris Midkiff <cmidkiff at kc.rr.com> wrote:

>Caldera a couple of times, but have never played with Debian (which is
>what Corel is based on). 

sorry to hear that :)

>boots to an appealing graphical screen.  The installer asked whether I
>wanted a kde workstation, server, or custom install.  I chose Custom and
>selected all of the packages.  Nice tree/checkbox selector, but very
>little granularity.  (you could pick kde, or not.  No control over which
>kde components) The installer then asked me for a username (no password,
>for this user or root either one). 

if its much like debian linux..probably a program called `dselect`
kinda user-unfriendly if ya ask me..but its ok because they have
alternatives that are fine

>"Explorer" if your into that...  Also, Citrix's ICA client for linux
>won't work. Complains about libSM.so.6 not being available.

hm..check and see if you have a program called `apt`..if so..
you can usually get apt to grab and install them for ya.
(usually depends on the license on whether debian packages them
for distribution or not, debianites are into the GPL :)

a little check on my box reveals the package name for libSM

evan at helix:~$ locate libSM
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/libSM.so
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6
...
evan at helix:~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6

the libSM libraries should be in the "xlib6g" package.
in debian you can just `apt-get install xlib6g` and apt
should grab the package off a debian mirror and install
the package for you. i looked over at ftp.corel.com at
what appears to be their package distribution point. 
doesnt look like they have this package. if the `apt` 
command fails you..you might be able to grab the 
package from the debian distribution. (ftp.debian.org/debian)

dists/slink/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-11.deb

and `dpkg -i foo` the deb. (i believe corel linux uses slink packages)

..
xlib6g depends on xfree86-common
..

let me know how it goes if ya decide to go for it...

>One more thing, Corel has hidden all of the boot sequence feedback under
>a splash screen.  Makes it look nice, but I like being able to watch as
>system daemons and modules get loaded.  Just a "Fuzzy Feeling" kind of
>thing, really.

ya..i installed SuSE once...it showed some startup messages
but not enough for me  :)

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Evan Hoff
evanh23 at usa.net

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