Notes on sucessfull patching of Xfbb7.04h rpm install on Suse9.1 Pro
Thanks to those listed below I was successful in
patching and recompiling Xfbb7.04h to run on
Suse9.1.
As mentioned in an earlier post, my intention was to
use only rpms provided by the Suse9 system either from
DVD or ftp site.
Today my fbb system is functional with telnet and
xfbbC client access only. The ax25 or netrom work will
come later.
Here I will describe my system and the steps used to
get xfbb7.04h running.
This is not a complete HOW-TO yet, but a first-draft
as how I did it.
My PC is a P-233 machine with 128mb ram and 4gb drive.
I used this as my older system with Rh6.2
and Xfbb7 has the same hardware.
My Suse9.1 was installed from DVD on a clean drive as
a text-mode system, as minimal as I could.
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 ext3 3.9G 864M 2.9G 23% /
I have also installed, using Yast, the following
applications for my web and Amateur work:
aprsd-2.1.5b9-178
mysql-4.0.18-32
php4-4.3.4-43.11
apache2-2.0.49-27.11
Here are my fbb7.04h install notes:
1. Originally I installed fbbsrv-7.04h-316.rpm from
DVD with dependency install of
libax25-0.0.10-177.rpm. However, as others have noted
as well, the program runs but connects to the FBB from
either xfbbC or telnet produce no menu or info.
The fix is to patch console.c code, so we must
download and compile the source.
2. Next download and install source rpm
fbbsrv-7.04h-316.src.rpm which unpacks into
/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/. This gives just two files
fbbsrc.704h.dif and xd704h-src.tgz. The archive
appears to be the standard fbb source.
3. After untar/unzip this archive we have the fbb
source files under
/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/fbbsrc.704h/src. I copied
the dif file from above into the src folder to make
the patching easier. Run the patch as "patch -p0
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Ron MacKay