Corel PhotoPaint for LTSP

written by James Troup


Topic: Corel Photopaint9 on LTSP

Linux Dist: RedHat 7.1

Date: 22 September 2001



You can get Corel PhotoPaint directly from Corel http://linux.corel.com/products/pp9/download.htm or you can get it from you local tucows mirror.

(It's a hefty 90mb download... be aware)



Getting Corel PhotoPaint to work with LTSP terminal is very easy. There is only one caveat and one adjustment to be made to the LTSP setup.


Photopaint Caveat:

There seems to be a caveat with the Photopaint install script. After installing Photopaint the program complains that it can't load the Bitstream fontserver. This is because the Bitstream Fonttastic RPM fails to istall due to 1) a symbolic link in /etc 2) because of a conflict with a file from chkconfig-1-2-22-1.rpm. To work around this, first remove the symbolic link /etc/init.d (ie. rm /etc/init.d) force install the fontastic rpm. (ie. rpm -i --force fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.06.22.14.00.1.i386.rpm) then replace the deleted symbolic link (ie. 'cd /etc' then 'ln -s rc.d/init.d init.d').



Modify LTSP:

A simple change to the font path in the rc.setupx for workstations needs to be made.


1) Edit the file /ltsroot/etc/rc.setupx

2) Find the 'files' section of the file eg.

Section "Files"

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

FontPath "tcp/${XFS_SERVER}:7100"


and add another line so it reads


Section "Files"

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"

FontPath "tcp/${XFS_SERVER}:7100"

FontPath "tcp/${XFS_SERVER}:7102/all"


3) Thats all! Enjoy