[Linux][Newbie] Trouble installing Squeak

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Dec 19 00:54:54 UTC 2001


On Tuesday 18 December 2001 04:03 pm, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> Hello Squeak folks.  I am trying to install Squeak to my user space in a
> box running Red Hat 7.2, that I'm connecting to via VNC.
>
> I downloaded the Squeak 3.0 source, image, changes and image file from the
> links found at http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak .
>
> I followed Ian's instructions -- except that I don't have root privileges,
> so I copied the executables to ~/bin.  When I change to the working
> directory that contains the image, source, changes files, and run "squeak
> Squeak3.0.image", I get the message "Visual class TrueColor is not
> supported at depth 8." at the command-line.  No Squeak :(.

You need to tell VNC not to use that visual class using the -cc option:

$ vncserver -cc 3
$ ./squeak -display ned:1 ../../3.0/Squeak3.1a-4325.image

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Ned Konz
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