gpm - General purpose mouse (daemon) HOWTO

ChangeLog


Nov 2, 2005	- Updated note for Slackware 10.1 and 10.2
		- Updated md5sum and sha1sum verification to output OK
		  (or not)
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Added a sample rc.gpm start-up script
Sep 29, 2004	- Added note that the md5sum came from my sha1sum-verified
		  tarball
		- Added patch that quiets errors that may break things like
		  dialog
Sep 15, 2004	- Added verification with a sha1sum from the author's
		  ftp site
		- Updated the part that cleans up elflibs to also match
		  Slackware 10.0's "aaa_elflibs-*" package name
		- Changed the md5sum -> textutils link to point to coreutils
Feb 5, 2004	- Changed home page link from ftp://arcana.linux.it/pub/gpm/
		  (which I couldn't get to with lynx, it must need passive ftp
		  (it worked with wget)) to http://linux.schottelius.org/gpm/
		- Added note with a link to an alternate download URL
		- Replaced the note about cleaning the libgpm line from the
		  elflibs package file with a blurb that'll do it for you
Sep 23, 2003	- Create ~/installed with mode 700
		- Added note about elflibs
		- Instead of just removing /usr/lib/libgpm.so.*, remove
		  /lib/libgpm.* and /usr/lib/libgpm.* before make install
Apr 21, 2003	- Modernized the howto
Feb 22, 2003	- Added note about info
Feb 14, 2003	- 1.20.1rc1 -> 1.20.1
		- Added removal of old version source and tarball
		- Added notes about startup
		- Added removal of old shared libs
Nov 25, 2002	- First entry

List of HOWTOs

Web page itself last updated: 2023-12-20 8:06pm (EDT -0400)
Copyright © 2001-2024 Jason Englander. All Rights reserved.
[HTML5]