[oclug] corel photopaint

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:20:29AM -0400, Gavriel State wrote:
> 
> If it's straight Potato it should work fine.  Is the font server running 
> properly?  (execute 'xset q | grep 7102' to find out)  

    Nope. It's installed and running, but that command doesn't turn up
anything. 

> Another area that's caused some problems is the code that reads the printcap
> file.  You can update the library that does that here:
> 
>   http://linux.corel.com/support/update_libaps.htm

    We haven't even set up the printcap file yet, but I'll look into that.
That exception appears to be coming from Wine, so it looks like photopaint is
doing something screwy. 

> Finally, you may want to make sure that you don't have any other version
> of Wine installed.  Some packagers (I'm not sure about Debian) have put
> some of the Wine .so-DLLs into the ld.so path, which causes the wrong
> version of the .so-DLLs to be loaded, with the obvious results.  You
> can work around this in several different ways, but given the vintage
> of the Potato version of Wine, you're better off just removing it.

    It's a brand-new install, so that's not possible. 

    Mike

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