Workstation upgrade from Redhat 7.3 to Redhat 9
Posted by creining | Filed under Linux/BSD
I recently upgraded my desktop machine from Redhat 7.3 to Redhat 9. A few notes for posterity follow 
. First, I set up stow so my filesystem can be much cleaner than the last go-around. Stow is used in my case for the installation of compiled source programs that I have downloaded and want to install. It sets up symlinks in a common target tree (/usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib etc) from the source tree. Stow can then be used to easily remove the installed files by removing the symlinks it created or assist in upgrading software by pointing the symlinks to the newer source tree. Second, I was getting an error of no PTYs when running screen. Looking into the issue further I find that I need to mount /dev/pts. The /dev/pts is a pseudo filesystem consisting of /dev/ptmx which “hands out” pseudo terminals, which screen uses. Third, after using Mozilla 1.2.1 for an hour or so thinking for some reason it’s going to be faster than the other times I have run it I find myself at the download page for Firebird. The Firebird I download didn’t have the anti-aliased fonts Mozilla 1.2.1 had but I found the gtk2+xft tarball in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7/. I found that you can find out the configure arguments by throwing “about:buildconfig” in the URL box. Fourth, fluxbox-0.9.6pre9 kicks ass!
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