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SO on RH 5.0 can be difficult to setup. I have attached a HTML document
with steps to follow.

James.
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<H1>
Moving From MS Windows To Linux</H1></CENTER>

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<A HREF=3D"map.html">Contents</A></H1></CENTER>

<H2>
<A HREF=3D"index.html">Home</A></H2>

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<H3>
<A HREF=3D"why.html">Why the Switch?</A></H3>
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<H2>
<A HREF=3D"before.html">Before You Begin</A></H2>

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<H3>
<A HREF=3D"dualboot.html">Sharing a Drive with Windows</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"install.html">Installation</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"postinstall.html">Post Install: First....</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"reading.html">What To Read For Help</A></H3>
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<A HREF=3D"basics.html">The Basics</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"filesys.html">The Linux (Virtual) File System</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"shell.html">Things You MUST Know About the Shell</A></H3>

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Quick Reference: Translating DOS</H3>

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<A HREF=3D"mounting.html">Getting to CD's and Floppies</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"x.html">The X Window System</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"internet.html">Dialing Up to the Internet</A></H3>

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<A HREF=3D"applications.html">Applications</A></H3>
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<A HREF=3D"kde.html">The K Desktop Environment</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"samba.html">Networking Linux</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"todo.html">To Do List</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"vince.html">About Vince</A></H2>

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<A HREF=3D"resume.html">Vince's Resume</A></H3>
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<H1>
Applications</H1></CENTER>
For now this section will just be some notes about odd things I've run
into while running various applications. To be expanded later.
<H2>
KLyX&nbsp;</H2>
( <A HREF=3D"http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/ettrich/klyx=
/klyx.html">http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/ettrich/klyx/=
klyx.html</A>
)
<BR>The first time I ran KLyX, I started following the Tutorial. I tried
to view the Tutorial with File -> Preview -> View DVI. Well, it worked,
but it had to run through about 1500 fonts, apparently it was creating
them right then. Good thing I used my trick of starting X programs from
the terminal in the background. I ran KLyX like this:
<P><TT>[user]$ klyx &amp;</TT>
<P>This allowed me to switch to the terminal and read the output of the
program so I could tell what was going on. Otherwise I would have been
just staring at the little clock and wondering if the program was locked
up. It wasn't, and after more than 5 minutes it finished what it was doin=
g.
(Meanwhile I popped open Netscape Composer to make this note.) Happily,
this only happens the first time you use the dvi viewer on a document.
The next time it took only a couple of seconds to view the document, even=

after closing the application. However, when I tried it on another (much
shorter) document, it went through the whole font thing again. Apparently=

this is normal, but it's annoying. The longer the document, the longer
it takes to do this.
<P>Later I discovered that in my version (0.9.6) the File -> New menu opt=
ion
doesn't work right, so I gave up trying to use it for now. There is an
update 0.9.7 version, which I downloaded but haven't had time to install
yet. I may not bother since my S.u.S.E. Linux distributions came with LyX=

(the original on which KLyX was based) on the CD. It uses Xforms rather
than Qt, but if it works, I'm happy.
<H2>
kppp</H2>
( <A HREF=3D"http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</A> )
<BR>Keeps reporting that the "lock" option is enabled in /etc/ppp/options=
,
even though it has been commented out. I gave up and just removed the wor=
d
"lock" from the file and the message stopped popping up.
<H2>
Netscape</H2>
By default, Netscape looks for its support files in /usr/local/lib/netsca=
pe...
The Red Hat rpms install Netscape in /usr/lib/netscape instead, and Netsc=
ape
can't find its help files or the dictionary (Spell button is grayed out).=
&nbsp;
To correct the problem you need to export an environment variable called
MOZILLA_HOME containing the actual path where Netscape lives. This can
be done in /etc/profile to cover all users, or in ~/.bash_profile for spe=
cific
users. On Red Hat systems you could also add this line to the <I>top</I>
of /usr/bin/netscape, the script used to start Netscape.
<P><TT>[user]$ export MOZILLA_HOME=3D/usr/lib/netscape</TT>
<BR>&nbsp;
<H2>
StarOffice</H2>
( <A HREF=3D"http://www.stardivision.com">http://www.stardivision.com</A>=

)
<BR>A Linux office suite that's available free for personal use.&nbsp;
Very cool program, without doubt, <I>IF</I> you can get it installed. Tho=
se
of us using Red Hat 5 and up (or any other distribution based on glibc
instead of libc5) have to jump through some nasty hoops to get this thing=

installed. Just follow the installation instructions that come in the pac=
kage,
they're pretty thorough and the setup is actually quite easy. Basically
you untar the package and run a script called setup.&nbsp;
<P>Trouble is if you're using Red Hat 5 you'll get a bizarre error when
the setup begins that reads something like "Script Error line 1: Syntax
error at token 'l' expected declarator, i.e. file...". I searched the 'Ne=
t
for hours before I found an answer to this one. The message lies, there's=

actually nothing wrong with the script at all. The problem is that some
of the libraries required by the setup.bin aren't available. Here's how
to fix it. Change to the office setup directory and run this command:
<P><TT>[user]$ ldd setup.bin</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libXt.so.6 =3D> /usr/X=
11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
(0x40005000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libXpm.so.4 =3D> /usr/=
X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
(0x40048000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libX11.so.6 =3D> /usr/=
X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
(0x40055000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libXmu.so.6 =3D> /usr/=
X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6
(0x400ec000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libXext.so.6 =3D> /usr=
/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6
(0x400fe000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libSM.so.6 =3D> /usr/X=
11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
(0x40109000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libICE.so.6 =3D> /usr/=
X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
(0x40111000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libdl.so.1 =3D> /lib/l=
ibdl.so.1
(0x40125000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libm.so.5 =3D> /lib/li=
bm.so.5
(0x40128000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libc.so.5 =3D> /lib/li=
bc.so.5
(0x40130000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; libc.so.6 =3D> /lib/li=
bc.so.6
(0x401f0000)</TT>
<BR><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /lib/ld-linux.so.1 =3D=
>
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)</TT>
<P>The command gives you a list of libraries that are required to run the=

program. On the left is the library that setup.bin wants. On the right
is the file on your system that's doing the job. If any of them say "not
found" or something like that, you've found the problem. The most likely
culprits are libc.so.5 and libm.so.5. Red Hat includes older versions of
these libraries in it's 5.x distributions. If that's what you're missing,=

download the libc-5.4.??.bin.tar.gz from UNC's sunsite or one of it's mir=
rors.
( http://sunsite.unc.edu ) You'll probably find it under /pub/Linux/GCC/,=

but look for the GCC directory in any case. You'll need to get 5.4.22 or
higher.
<P>Once you've got the package, untar it into the /tmp directory. I can
never remember the syntax for tar, so check the man page (type&nbsp; <TT>=
man
tar</TT>). Since I have KDE installed I always use kzip, a most handy uti=
lity
that takes all the work out of it. Once you have the archive unpacked,
<A HREF=3D"postinstall.html#becoming">become
SuperUser</A>. Locate the libraries in question (they should be under /tm=
p/lib
if you unpacked them right). Copy each of them into the /lib directory
using the cp command. Then change to the /lib directory and run this:
<P><TT>[root]# ldconfig</TT>
<P>This causes Linux to create the proper links for the new libraries to
work with applications. Become a normal user again and test your work usi=
ng
the ldd command again. If it still reports missing libraries, go back and=

check your work, you missed something. If it doesn't, you have only one
step to go. Issue the command env or printenv. This will print a list of
the current environment variables. Look for one called LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Make sure it contains /lib. If it doesn't, or if you don't see it:
<P><TT>[user]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D/lib:/usr/lib:$</TT>LD_LIBRARY_PA=
TH
<P>Now you can run the setup script per the instructions, no more errors.=

(Don't forget to type <TT>./setup</TT> to run the one in the current dire=
ctory!
Otherwise you'll start the Red Hat setup utility in /usr/sbin !) Good Luc=
k!
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&nbsp;Copyright 1998 by Vince Veselosky
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