XQM Installation Guide / Linux

How to install:

- Login as root
- Unpack the archive and copy XQM's directory to your preferred location.
- Do NOT move any of the *.so files to another location.
- Start XQM with ./xqmwin

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If you stumble over some other error, don't hestitate to contact me.
Mail the XQM's output to h_schneider@marketmix.com
Include its version and your platform as well.

This software can only improved with your feedback!

System:
Linux (e.g. Debian, Redhat 9, SUSE 9)

Symptom:
Starting XQM results in a Python backtrace dump:

Solution:
For some reason, RedHat (and maybe some other distris) wants the lib in the search path.
So just do a
> cd xqm
> cp libwx_gtkd-2.4.so /usr/lib

and make sure that /usr/lib is in your PATH variable.

System:
Redhat 9.0

Symptom:
Openssl is installed and /usr/lib is in my PATH, but I still get
ImportError: libcrypto.so.0.9.6: cannot open shared object [...]"

Solution:
Create a symbolic link from version 0.9.6 to your current lib version, e.g.
ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6

Don't confuse /lib with /use/lib. RedHat searches /lib at first!

System:
Linux with kernel >2.4.1, e.g. RedHat 9

Symptom:
XQM hangs or yields a core dump, when querying the queue.

Solution:
The way how threads are handled by the kernel has changed since RedHat 9.
See http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/R...ease-notes/x86/ for details.

Since XQM and XQMAgent use threads extensively, they are both affected by this change.

For better compatibility, you should wrap them into a startup script which forces the system to emulate the old thread scheme:

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#!/bin/sh
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL="2.4.1"
./xqmwin # or ./xqmagent
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Don't forget to do
chmod 755 scriptname

System:
Unix and derivates

Symptom:
XQM Command Line just dumps a traceback error:

Solution:
Just enter
export MAIL_ROOT=/var/MailRoot
before starting XQM/CMD.

You can wrap this export statement in a script or put it generally into your /etc/profles.

System:
Mandrake Linux 10.x

Symptom:
XQM won't start because libwx_gtkd-2.4.so complains about missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

Solution:
Download libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm from http://rpmfind.net

Then do
rpm --install libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm

Complete download link here: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.p....&system=&arch=