moho on linux doesn't start

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Juergen
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Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:17 pm

moho on linux doesn't start

Post by Juergen »

Hello,

a few days ago, I tried to use moho on my fedora4 linux box. Since moho 5.4 didn't start because of a wrong version of gnome libraries (libpangocairo) i tried moho 5.3 and it worked.
Now I upgraded from fedora 4 to fedora 5 and neither moho 5.3 nor moho 5.4 work. I get an error message at start:

/home/wille/programme/moho5.4/./moho.donotrunme: error while loading shared libraries: ming.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

It should not be a problem wiht execution rights - trying to run as root produces the same error message.

regards. Jürgen
Juergen
Posts: 6
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:17 pm

Post by Juergen »

hello,

I found a solution:

I've downloaded the ming source code form ming.sourceforge.net. I buildt and installed it the usual way (
./configure
make
su
make install
).

Then I renamed the ming.so which ships with moho and made a link via

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libming.so ming.so

in the moho directory.

it works now with moho5.3 and moho5.4

maybe this should be the preferred way anyway, but then I dont't know what about the GPL of the ming library in this case.

regards Jürgen
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