[Sheflug] Re: Awful world of JPEG

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Harvey

Harvey Kelly wrote:

Oh..  another in the "world of" series ??

> 
> I found a libjpeg.rpm at Caldera's site, but that crashed X, so I
> thought "there MUST be a RPM at SuSE".  Sure enough, a couple of hours
> later I'd found: libjpeg-6.2.0-62.i386.rpm.  Perfect I thought.  One
> command later and I found that Netscape 6 ran, yes really, but crashed
> everytime I touched anything.  "Ooh, that's funny, Kmail doesn't work, and
> Electric Eyes doesn't display any .jpg images, and The Gimp has gone a
> bit funny..." etc etc.  I logged out and back in to X, and nothing, again
> I logged out, but this time as my girlfriend (she prefers KDE you
> see) and, of course X again freaked out.  I've removed the new RPM  and
> put the old one back in and am now sobbing violently at my desk.

You might find that the nsfix.rpm and the xshared.rpm will fix this ? 
Go to the SUSE site and find the 6.4 updates page.  It's somewhere
near the bottom.
.
> 
> A thought:  I remember from the meeting a couple of months ago(?), that
> nice man from SuSE handing out trial versions of SuSE 6.4.  Has anyone
> still got one, and could they do me a copy? 

I've got some Ceebit 2000 CDs.  If you want one send me an *A5*
envelope and *make sure* that you put a 32p stamp on it.  Mail me for
the address to send it to.

Thanks

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK


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