- From: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:26:05 +0100
- To: "Patrick T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
- cc: www-amaya@w3.org
> I installed the RPM on my machine, RedHat 7.0. When I tried to launch, the
> program opened, then immediately closed, and the terminal window I opened
> Amaya from gave this error:
>
> libpng error: Application uses deprecated png_read_init() and must be
> recompiled
> .
> ping read image error
> *** Thot: irrecoverable error ***
The libpng changed and seems incompatible now with old versions.
>
> I tried following the instructions for building the source, but it said that
> I did not have Motif installed (I do have Lesstif 0.92? installed), and
> frankly, I have no experience with compilers. Can anyone help?
Open Motif is available for free. See the information at
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Autoconf.html
>
> Can anyone suggest a version of Amaya that will work and is available as RPM
> (sorry to be a wimp, but)? I used 2.4 a lot on RH6.2, but ever since I
> upgraded to 7.0 I've had problems (I didn't try 2.4 on RH7.0).
I'm just testing if I can generate a RPM of the last release.
>
> Patrick Rourke
>
>
--
Irene.
Received on Monday, 8 January 2001 11:26:09 UTC