Friday, 19 October 2012

AltMe on Linux 64bit

I post here a solution for a simple problem: Altme on Linux 64bit seems not working.

Foreword

Firsto of all, do you know what is AltMe?
AltMe is a free chat software like IRC, but made only in pure Rebol; instead of rooms, there are worlds.
Rebol4 world is very populated of rebol users.
In order to use AltMe, just download it from: http://www.altme.com/

then you must have a free account on it.
In order to have an account there are three ways:

Rebol gateway

This is the recommended method.
REBOL Gateway is an AltME world set up as a gateway to other REBOL resources.
  • Start the AltME client (that you just downloaded)
  • go to:
    • World: REBOL-gate
    • Username: guest
    • Password: guest
  • Post a message in the REBOL4 Join Requests group. We'll need your full name, preferred username, and a working email address (to send you a password)
  • Sit back and wait for a confirming email. To prevent spam, join requests are checked by real humans, so please be patient; it may take us a day or two to respond
  • If you are new to AltME: while you are waiting, please play with making posts in the playpen group. That'll give you a feel for how AltME works
  • Also, ask any questions in the Questions? group

Ask via email

If you are not a member, you can join by sending an email to:
rebol-request@REBOL.com
with the word subscribe on the subject line.

Ask via Rebol.org

 Register on http://www.rebol.org and then click on http://www.rebol.org/aga-join.r?action=request

Linux 64 bit problem

If you use Linux 64bit, you AltMe could give you this error:
./altme: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw7.so.7: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
solution is very easy: create a file altme.sh in the same directory of altme with this content:
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/max/altme

It's very important that the last line is the full path to the original altme binary.
Then make altme.sh executable and launch it:

chmod u+x ./altme.sh
./altme.sh

finished:

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