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Title: Old Motif in new S.u.S.E. Linux system

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Old Motif in new S.u.S.E. Linux system

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.2 on
Motif version: before S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2

Symptom:

Cause:

YaST tries to recognize automatically through the disk ID the CD version and to prevent a different versions' "chaotic installation" by mistake. By this, the system's consistency (only fixable by version numbers) could get lost.

Solution:

When the new YaST unfortunately does not recognize anymore the old CDs too, there is a detour on which one can install.
  1. Mount the (old) Motif CD manually e.g. after /cdrom
    mount -r -tiso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
    

  2. Change into the directory /cdrom/slack:
    cd /cdrom/slack
    

  3. Start YaST

  4. Choose as installation source (in the submenu "Configurations for the installation") the option "Installation from a reachable directory". Declare /cdrom/slack as directory.

  5. Install the Motif packet from the old Motif CD. The new YaST has a built-in special treatment, so that the old Motif CD's Imake configuration files do not overwrite the (in the meantime newer) X11 version's files with the same name. This is the reason for the problem with "Missing separator".

  6. After the installation you must execute once more the desired change in the installation instructions in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/site.def. Add these lines:
    #define LocalRulesFile <Motif.rules> 
    #define LocalTmplFile <Motif.tmpl>
    
    before the line with
    "#endif /* BeforeVendorCF */" 
    
    (from around line 51 on).

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Keywords: MOTIF, UPDATE, YAST, INSTALLATION, INSTALL, OLD CD, 11/95

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