Kylix + Ubuntu

[Kryton]

Hi,
I've been trying to install Kylix 3 onto my fresh Ubuntu install. Has anyone managed to get it working? At present it has installed fine and I have made sym. links to the various things that are missing (due to versioning in names) and apparently that should work fine. However, when trying to "startdelphi" all I end up with is a grey screen with the tool windows all minimised. If I try and restore/position these then they show but no text appears and I have no control/menu pallette at the top.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

- Kryton

[Kryton]

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[tread]

Try starting it from the commandline (if possible, with a verbose option) and then observe the messages that get printed out (on stderr). That might give you some clue .. I managed to find a problem with an application that used libpng, but got the wrong version.

[eric222]

I too have this problem with Kylix Pro 3. It installs fine, but after launching it the menues and toolbar are all over the place or missing and most of the screen is just grey. I will probably spend a little time trying to figure it out again, but if anyone has some suggestions.....

[dekae]

I have the same problem too. Did anyone solve it?
thank you

Alvaro

[orangepeel]

From what I understand of it (and I'm real noob at this) Kylix can only use X11. If you use XFree then you get the issues u guys describe.

I had it working fine on warty but can't get it going at all with hoary.

If you manage to work out how to use X11 with hoary then it should work. I've never had any joy there so can't really help any further.

[orangepeel]

Originally Posted by orangepeel From what I understand of it (and I'm real noob at this) Kylix can only use X11. If you use XFree then you get the issues u guys describe. I had it working fine on warty but can't get it going at all with hoary. If you manage to work out how to use X11 with hoary then it should work. I've never had any joy there so can't really help any further.

ok apparently I'm getting my x's mixed up.

Kylix works with XFree86. Hoary comes with X.org (??) If you can get XFree86 working on Hoary (no idea how. Help?) then kylix should work.

[Omnix]

Ok, figured it out on Hoary - should be able to port to other versions/Debian-based distros if required

First off, libX11.so that the install script searches for doesn't exist, link to the current library version:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so

Install GTK 1.2 and Xaw6 libraries (7 and 8 are installed by default)
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2 libxaw6

Install with:

$ ./setup.sh

Once installed, you need to fix the grey windows/no text/icons problem. Open up "startdelphi" in your favourite text editor or:

$ nano `which startdelphi`

At the top, it has this by default:

KYDEF_LOCALE="en_US"

This loads Kylix in UTF-8 mode by default, which it doesn't seem to like. Simply change to this for the US:

KYDEF_LOCALE="en_US.ISO8859-1"

Great Britain:

KYDEF_LOCALE="en_GB.ISO8859-1"

etc, replacing your country's ISO code with the appropriate value.

For the last bit, scroll to the last line of the file where it has something like:

/home/user/kylix3/bin/delphi $*

Change it to:

LANG=$KYDEF_LOCALE /home/user/kylix3/bin/delphi $*

Then just start Kylix as normal, using the menu or startdelphi command.

Hope this helps

[orangepeel]

cheers om, that worked nice.

[lvincent]

thank you so much for the fix. your such an angel . but there's still an evil inside my kylix because it will hang when i run a simple app. any idea how to solve this one?

or have you true doing a fix that goes something like this LD_ASSUME_KERNEL?


THANKS,

lvincent