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From: deface <deface@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trouble with ImageMagick suite
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:33:40
Message-Id: 1175020062.10001.0.camel@alpha.uberpenguin.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Trouble with ImageMagick suite by Lindsay Haisley
1 can you verify you do not have the X as a use flag ?
2 emerge -pv media-gfx/imagemagick
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4
5 On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
6
7 > I have imagemagick-6.3.0.5 installed on a server running Gentoo which is
8 > connected by VPN to my desktop, also running Gentoo Linux. I allow the
9 > X server on my desktop to accept connections from clients on the server.
10 > This works with no problems. I can run xeyes on the server and the eyes
11 > show up on my desktop.
12 >
13 > On the other hand, if I run display, from the ImageMagick suite to try
14 > to display an image file I get only the self-doc from the program.
15 > Debugging with '-debug all' shows the following:
16 >
17 > 2007-03-27T11:22:25-05:00 0:01 0.020u 6.3.0 Exception display[11712]: display.c/unknown/1741/Exception
18 > X Window library is not available `'
19 >
20 > The system has x11-libs/libX11-1.0.3 installed on it, and also
21 > xorg-x11-7.0-r1, even though it never runs an X server, only X clients
22 > with DISPLAY pointing to another box.
23 >
24 > I've been running display successfully from another server, running
25 > Debian. It also runs locally on my desktop with no complaints. Does
26 > anyone have any idea what display on the Gentoo server box might be
27 > looking for, or how to provide it?
28 >
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