Re: compiling error: xauth not found
Horacio,
Maybe something went wrong on your system during or after the
install. But I do suggest you do your homework more thoroughly. Here is
what I get :
debian$pwd
/mnt/cdrom/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/x11
debian$dpkg -c xbase-clients_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | less
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/doc/xbase-clients/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 9972 1999-02-23 02:54
usr/doc/xbase-clients/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 290 1999-02-23 02:54
usr/doc/xbase-clients/README.Debi
an
-rw-r--r-- root/root 23295 1999-02-23 02:54
usr/doc/xbase-clients/changelog.D
ebian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 27499 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/Xmark
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 4616 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/appres
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 6020 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/atobm
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 33876 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 10708 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/beforelight
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 70376 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/bitmap
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 4496 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/bmtoa
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 10696 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/dga
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 40240 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/editres
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 24108 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/fsinfo
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 30180 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/fslsfonts
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 28752 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/fstobdf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 18664 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/iceauth
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 81748 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 12596 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/oclock
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 7308 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/resize
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5984 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 77044 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/setxkbmap
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 3588 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/showrgb
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1813 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/startx
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 84972 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 2712 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/x11perfcomp
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 26432 1999-02-23 02:54 usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
Note the last line.
Regards,
Jor-el
Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
-- Mark Twain
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> $ dpkg -l | less
>
> ii xbase-clients 3.3.2.3a-11 miscellaneous X clients
>
> may be xauth is somewhere else?
>
> Jor-el dijo:
> >
> > 'xauth' is indeed present in Debian - you just havent installed
> > it. It is part of the package xbase-clients on Slink.
> >
> > On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to compile ssh1 and found the following error while
> > > running ./configure. I su'ed root and copied the tarball to /usr/local:
> > >
> > > $ su
> > > ...
> > > /usr/local/ssh-1.2.27# ./configure
> > > ...
> > > checking for xauth... no
> > > configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting
> > >
> > > Since there's no xauth, but .Xauthority in Debian, how do I tell the
> > > configure script about this?
> > >
> > > BTW, I know there is a ssh1 deb package, and even a ssh2 deb package,
> > > but I'd like to do it by hand.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Horacio
> homega@ciberia.es
> Valencia - ESPAÑA
>
>
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