Re: debian package and libpcre2

[Arnold W. <awi...@te...>]

Salvador Eduardo Tropea wrote:

> Arnold Wiegert wrote:
> 
>> Thank you for your reply,
>>
>> I am running Woody as best I can tell;
>> My CDs are marked debian-30r1-i386-binary-xx
> 
> 
> Do you have the 7 CDs? If not try getting the list of packages from 
> internet.
AW: I have both a set of CDs and access to the internet and have 
searched debian for libpcre2, but no luck with debian; I've not tried 
other sites/distros
> 
>> Meanwhile I have downloaded the source files and manually installed 
>> and compiled the editor; it runs, but I have one question:
>> If I am logged as superuser it looks as it does under Windows and DOS 
>> and fills the existing console window.
>> But when I run it as a regular user, I get a new and very dark window 
>> with almost unreadable text and I see in the original window the line:
>> Drawing mode: Code page
>>
>> It isn't a great problem, but I'd rather not run everything as superuser.
> 
> 
> Hmmm ... lets see.
>  From what you say you are running under X.
> When using X the editor will try to connect to the X display. It looks 
> like your "root" can´t connect to the X display when the user is using 
> it. I remmember Potato was configured this way and was very annoying 
> because if you did a su in an X terminal then you couldn´t start X 
> applications as root.
> If the connection to X fails the editor will use the X terminal, which 
> is quite inferior than the X11 TV driver.
> It could explain the difference between root and the user.
> But then you say the colors of the standalone window are too dark. What 
> color depth are you using? I never tried the X11 driver using 8 bits as 
> color depth, may be that´s the problem.
> You can configure the editor to choose the drivers in a different order. 
> Take a look at the "doc" directory of the TV sources. It have a text for 
> each driver and one that explains how to control their priority 
> (ConfigFile.txt). You can change the XTerm driver priority to be bigger 
> than the X11 driver priority. This will allow you to use the X terminal 
> as the root is using.
> 
> SET

AW: I have had some problems with my video card - no proper driver 
because it was too new at the time - when I installed it and it still 
causes some problems. Seems I may have to find a more recent driver - if 
possible, that will run with the woody debian, re-install the whole 
thing or go to new version/distro if necessary

The main reason I wanted to use setedit is because I don't want to learn 
3 different editors to use with DOS, linux and Windows, so I'll try to 
stick it out and get things fixed, if possible.

Thank you for your help - hopefully I can contribute and help - 
eventually :-)

BTW, if it isn't obvious already, I'm quite new to linux admin work & 
installation, although I have used it for some time at work, where all 
those details were sorted out - now it's all up to me :-(

Arnold