Tips

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 23, Jul 2003, The Matt 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.

Ok, I'll find another way with 4.2, but for now using fortune is the
most elegant way.

Benedikt

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