fp5/Linux 2.6 -- anyone got it running?

[Fairlight]

In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Jay Ashworth achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 04:49:06PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> > > In short, you are correct that 5.0.08 simply won't run there due to
> > > non-backward-compatibility in the Linux distrib.
> > 
> > And if you update, make sure you install libtermcap, as it won't have been
> > installed by default, and fP >= 5.0.10 won't run without it.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder, Mark.  The install does pop an error about
> that almost immediately, but then hides it with the licence agreement.

Well that reminder didn't really do you a lot of good if you managed to
overlook it and trip the error anyway, did it?  :)

> But do let me say that that's about the *only* quibble I have with the
> 5.0 installer; it's *nice*, otherwise.  Who wrote this again?  Jerry
> Rains?

You know, you're the first person I've -ever- heard say a single good
thing about that installer.  I've heard many a horror story about its
functionality (or lack thereof), and the code is supposed to be bloated as
all get-out for what it does.  I dunno who wrote it.  Check the code--maybe
it's commented.

As for your one quibble--well, that's called reading the Release Notes.  Or
at the very least it's called paying attention to the very last thing I
said the day before.  That the installer apparently uses filePro to install
filePro makes...very little logical sense to me.

>       If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator.  Or two.  --me

You might want to fix this:                        ^^

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