[Splashy-devel] Bug#458203: splashy: cannot find libglib-2.0.so.0

[Matthijs Melchior]

Luis Mondesi wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 9:20 AM, Matthijs Melchior <mmelchior at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Hello Matthijs,
>
> Up until recently, Splashy was compiled statically. The recommended
> way of running Splashy now is from initramfs. By default, when you
> install Splashy, it will set itself up in initramfs.
>
> All you would need to do is to edit your kernel parameters (from grub,
> lilo, yaboot, or whatever your boot loader is) as it's detailed in the
> README file. We are working to automate this step as well.
>
> For some reason your system does not seem to be running Splashy from
> initramfs. I recommend that you copy your /etc/default/splashy and
> /etc/splashy directories and purge the package, then re-install it:
>
> http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq#splashy_just_doesn_t_work
>
> Note, if you, for some reason, do not want to run Splashy from
> initramfs, then you will need to compile it statically. There is
> plenty of information on the README, our wiki, and the HACKING file.
> Essentially, you will need to edit configure.ac and src/Makefile.am.
> Just follow the comments.
>
> Regards,
>   
Luis,
    I have been looking at the package overview at packages.qa.debian.org
and there I see that the current version [0.3.8-1] is not yet built for
i386....

When that is available, I will do a new attempt to install spashy.

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