Blank Config Screen?

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Synbios

Beginner

Posts: 4

Tuesday, March 2nd 2004, 5:38am

Blank Config Screen?

This is what my Kopete 0.8 configure screen looks like:

Suse 9.0, KDE 3.1.4, kopete .8 final installed from tarball
The main kopete screen is also missing some graphics and buttons.
Anyone know this problem? Id imagine it has something to do with the permissions of the kopete files. I installed the program under root but I thought I chmod'd everything correctly so I dont know what the problem is.

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djtrippin

Trainee

Posts: 142

Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 5:10am

There is no reason to chmod the installed files, by default they are installed with read and execute permissions for all users. I think that chmodding the files here may be what caused the problem. Try reinstalling kopete without changing the permissions this time.

Simplicity is the staple of the working man.

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Synbios

Beginner

Posts: 4

Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 6:16am

I started with a .73 rpm binary that worked fine. I uninstalled it with rpm -e kopete and it uninstalled successfully. I then tried installing the new .8 from scratch and Ive been getting this problem of blank menus and stuff.
to install I did:
./configure
make
make install
in that order. I didnt touch the permissions this time and the problem is still occuring. This is getting really weird, I bet it has something to do with the fact that I had an rpm on there before.

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djtrippin

Trainee

Posts: 142

Thursday, March 4th 2004, 4:55am

You didnt add a prefix.
Follow these instructions which can be found here.

Quoted

Well, first do a 'which konqueror' from the konsole, the output should be something like /usr/bin/konqueror or /opt/kde/bin/konqueror. Whatever the output, your prefix will be the output without the /bin/konqueror. Now, extract the file like this:
tar -zxvf kopete-0.8.tar.gz (or whatever the specific file name is)
then:
cd kopete-0.8
./configure --prefix=(output from before minus /bin/konqueror)
make
make install

And thats it.

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Synbios

Beginner

Posts: 4

Saturday, March 6th 2004, 9:06pm

Thanks it worked.

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