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[CSCMail-Users] Installation problems ... (again and again)

[Vincent S. <vse...@fr...>]

	I have some problems with the installation script : it
encounters apparently some difficulties in installing Gtk ...
	It download the tarball without any problem, but then, trying
to install the libs within, I get a bunch of error messages.
	The last ones are :

make : *** [xs/GtkXmHTML.o] Error 1
Done, firing up the GUI ...
	*Click on the "go" button ...*
Using Freshly built Gtk to build GtkXmHTML
Can't call method "set_text" on an undefined value at
CSCMailInstaller.pl line 536.
Can't upgrade that kind of scalar during global destruction.

	And that's gone.

	I'm working on a Caldera 2.4 distribution, and Perl 5.005 is
installed. Does this version of the kernel have some problems with Gtk ?

	Thank for help ... and if definitively, the problem comes from
a crappy installation of something on my system, then I'll hunt another
E-Mail client. I would be disappointed, 'cause apparently, you guys did
a great job on this one.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Installation problems ... (again and again)

[Vincent S. <vse...@fr...>]

Le Thu, 31 Aug 2000, vous avez écrit :
> I have some problems with the installation script : it
> encounters apparently some difficulties in installing Gtk ...

	... and so one ...

	And then, I read :

> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
> | http://www.cscmail.net/cscmail.faq
> |

	So just a minute, boys, I read, and if it definitively doesn't
work, I'll launch an help flare.

	Sorry for disturbing.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Installation problems ... (again and again)

[Vincent S. <vse...@fr...>]

Le Thu, 31 Aug 2000, vous avez écrit :
> 
> 	So just a minute, boys, I read, and if it definitively doesn't
> work, I'll launch an help flare.
> 
> 	Sorry for disturbing.

	.... I've installed gnome-libs-devel, gnome-libs was soon on
the system. But it still doesn't work ...

	There could be a problem with GtkXmHTML.xs ... "make" tells me
to read the Pearl-xs manual, but there, it becomes a bit tricky for me.

	I think I'll wait for the C version.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Installation problems ... (again and again)

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Vincent Sechehaye was overheard mumbling something about this on Thu, 31 Aug
2000 17:31:04 +0200

>	.... I've installed gnome-libs-devel, gnome-libs was soon on
>  the system. But it still doesn't work ...
>  
>	There could be a problem with GtkXmHTML.xs ... "make" tells me
>  to read the Pearl-xs manual, but there, it becomes a bit tricky for me.
>  
>	I think I'll wait for the C version.

A) patience is a virtue

B) Try my prior suggestion (re-download CSCMailInstaller.pl I fixed a bug in it
since your first post to the list)

C) If there is a messed up lib on your system (or missing) then the C version
won't work either.

D) If you still have problems, post the FULL error message (we can't help
without knowing the errors)

E) CSCMail DOES work on Caldera (and RedHat, and Debian, and Mandrake, and *BSD
and Solaris, get my drift yet?)

You post to the list, asking for help... A few hours goes by, you don't get
help, you give up.

Pretty sad....

-CZ

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Installation problems ... (again and again)

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Vincent Sechehaye was overheard mumbling something about this on Thu, 31 Aug
2000 09:22:52 +0200

>	I have some problems with the installation script : it
>  encounters apparently some difficulties in installing Gtk ...
>	It download the tarball without any problem, but then, trying
>  to install the libs within, I get a bunch of error messages.
>	The last ones are :
>  
>  make : *** [xs/GtkXmHTML.o] Error 1
>  Done, firing up the GUI ...
>	*Click on the "go" button ...*
>  Using Freshly built Gtk to build GtkXmHTML
>  Can't call method "set_text" on an undefined value at
>  CSCMailInstaller.pl line 536.
>  Can't upgrade that kind of scalar during global destruction.

This error message is due to a typo in CSCMailInstaller.pl  download a new one
from the website and try again... If you get other errors, please paste the
FULL error log so I can see what they are...

>	I'm working on a Caldera 2.4 distribution, and Perl 5.005 is
>  installed. Does this version of the kernel have some problems with Gtk ?

Kernel? no.... (Not to mention you don't tell the version of the Kernel, just
the version of Caldera....)
  
>	Thank for help ... and if definitively, the problem comes from
>  a crappy installation of something on my system, then I'll hunt another
>  E-Mail client. I would be disappointed, 'cause apparently, you guys did
>  a great job on this one.

So, if it turns out that there is something mis-installed on your system, you
will not fix it, but try another e-mail client?  That makes no sense...  (Not
that I am implying that there IS something mis-installed.... but if there is,
fixing a mis-installed lib would be hi priority in my mind...)

-CZ