Tips

[The Matt]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 23:29, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:08:28 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work for me. Whatever I do, it
> > complains about missing "fortune".
> > 
> > As I agree that "fortune" is needed to get fortune messages :) I
> > hardly understand why forture is required when "tips" is selected, and
> > even why fortune missing prevents xfce4-tips to display tips at all...
> 
> I assume it uses fortune-style .dat file to store the tips and uses
> fortune to display them. This is acceptable reuse of available tools
> IMHO.
> 
> On RH, fortune is installed in /usr/games/fortune which is not in the
> $PATH. Add it to $PATH and it works.

Uhh...I'm guessing you've been upgrading your Red Hat, right?  That is
because if you read the RH 9 Release Notes you will see:

The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Linux 9:
...
fortune-mod — Unclear copyright status

And, in the Severn release notes, there is no mention of fortune-mod
being back.

Thus, xfce4-tips will bork on all new RH 9+ installations, no matter
what a user does.  Unless you want to distribute fortune-mod with Xfce4,
a different program will be needed.
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