[wingide-users] Installation problems

I think you can fix the problem by creating ~/.wingide manually.  There
seems to be a bug in version 1.0's startup/install sequence that fails to
create this directory if you place the license.dat file in the
floating-locks directory before you ever run Wing.

Alternatively, if you put license.dat somewhere else and not in
floating-locks, Wing should create ~/.wingide and then prompt you to point
to the license.dat file, which it will then copy into place in
~/.wingide.

Let us know if none of this helps... and sorry about the inconvenience.

- Stephan

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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 Rebecca.R.Krause@seagate.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded the Wing IDE 1.0 final RPM package and installed it.  I have
> GNU enscript 1.6.1, GLIB 1.2.8-4, GTK 1.2.8-7 and python 1.5.2 installed on
> my RedHat 7.0 machine.  I received the license.dat file and placed in it
> the /usr/lib/wingide/floating-locks/ directory.  In the usr/bin directory
> there is a soft link to  ../lib/wingide/wing.  /usr/bin is in my path.
> 
> When I go to a command line prompt and type 'wing', this message gets
> printed to the screen:
> 
> "Warning:  Could not read preferences file in
> /home/username/.wingide/preferences"
> 
> Then the license agreement pops up and I hit accept.  The  Initial
> Preferences Setup window appears and I hit the button labeled "Use these
> setting".  Then the following message appears on the screen:
> 
> "Could not open  X Windows display"
> "Exiting Wing IDE"
> 
> My normal prompt line then appears.
> 
> What can't I run Wing IDE?  There is no directory called .wingide in
> /home/username.  I have tried uninstalling the Wing IDE RPM and
> re-installing it but the same thing happens.
> 
> Thanks for the help in advance.
> 
> Becky
> 
> 
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