Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 14:16:49 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "Peter D. Pawelek" <ppawel@axess.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nethack Message-ID: <19980707141648.22213@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980706225645.A10918@axess.com>; from Peter D. Pawelek on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:56:45PM -0400 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>
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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
<sigh> I guess I'd better read the manual to work out how to do it.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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