From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 6 21:17:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15776 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15768 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29498; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:16:53 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980707141648.22213@welearn.com.au> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:16:49 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: "Peter D. Pawelek" Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nethack References: <19980706062142.09447@welearn.com.au> <19980705193555.A2497@axess.com> <19980706100424.64956@welearn.com.au> <19980705210908.A2609@axess.com> <19980707000842.25413@nothing-going-on.org> <19980707094242.15217@welearn.com.au> <19980706225645.A10918@axess.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980706225645.A10918@axess.com>; from Peter D. Pawelek on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:56:45PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:56:45PM -0400, Peter D. Pawelek wrote: > Quoting Sue Blake (sue@welearn.com.au): > > > > Clearly I'm not :-( I tried installing it last night and... well... when > > I cheer up I might tell the tale of woe. > > > > I've got nethack-3.2.2.tgz and nethack-qt-3.2.2.tgz here, and this qt > > business means nothing at all to me. Is one the X version or what?? > > > > Yes, the qt version is for X and it requires that the qt libraries have > already been installed. The qt libraries provide a lot of gui objects > and other X graphical elements for programs written to use them; be- > sides nethack-qt, KDE was written with the qt libraries. Aah, well I don't want that one. > Anyway, I digress. I just installed nethack-qt on my FreeBSD box to > see if it would work (on my girlfriends machine it was installed as > a package during the initial CDROM install (the non-qt version, that > is)) and I didn't have any problems. What I did was to first install > the qt port followed by the nethack-qt port; the nethack-qt port pulled > down a few other programs, so I wonder if this is where you had your > problem (ie. did you try to install it as a package?). Yeah, yeah, it all makes sense now! I tried to install the wrong package for me. > The install went flawlessly and I just finished a bit of hacking and > slashing to make sure everything was alright. ;) I just installed the _correct_ package, and yes it went flawlessly. Dunno about any hacking and slashing though. It complains about permissions somewhere but I can run it as root OK until I sort that out. Ooh, this is exciting.... well here I am, past the preamble, and suddenly there's this big blank screen with a few funny marks on it, and down the bottom there's the single instruction: Root the Troglodite I guess I'd better read the manual to work out how to do it. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message