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Ranjith

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Registered: 2018-09-04

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st terminal error

when  i try to open st terminal it show the following error
free(): invalid next size (normal)
Aborted (core dumped)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: st terminal error

Please include more detail in your post:

* the version of st
* how you installed it
* configs

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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Mikeltxo15

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Registered: 2018-08-30

Posts: 14

Re: st terminal error

Have you installed Luke Smith's version or some other preconfigured version?
I had that problem until i downloaded the default one and that one runned smoothly.
Just do:
#To download the current version
wget https://dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.8.1.tar.gz
#To extract it
tar -xf st-0.8.1.tar.gz
#Change directory
cd st-0.8.1/
#Compile it. Check the config in the folder if you wanna change something
make
#Install it
sudo make install
#Try it out
st

Last edited by Mikeltxo15 (2018-09-09 01:42:10)

jasonwryan

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Re: st terminal error

Suggesting OP manually install an application is probably not the best approach. They should use PKGBUILDs until they know what they are doing.

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Mikeltxo15

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Registered: 2018-08-30

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Re: st terminal error

That's the problem, st doesn't have a PKGBUILD. It's a suckless app, so instead of having a configuration file, you modify the source code yourself and then compile it with your own configuration already integrated into the source code. Therefore, the only way of installing this app is manually. Or using a pre-existing build, which might be what OP did, and depending on the configuration some problems might arise.

V1del

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Re: st terminal error

Everything that's packaged in Arch has a PKGBUILD. A PKGBUILD is Arch's way of creating a package out of source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

Trilby

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Re: st terminal error

That's the problem, st doesn't have a PKGBUILD.

WTF are you on? st and st-git are in the AUR (with PKGBUILDs).  I'd bet at least two out of three other people responding in this thread (if not all three) use st and build it with a PKGBUILD, and modify the config appropriately.

But it's been almost two weeks with no sign of the OP again - I'd guess they forgot they even posted here.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-09-15 15:11:57)

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Mikeltxo15

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Registered: 2018-08-30

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Re: st terminal error

It does?!?
IT DOES!
Well, now i feel dumb. Yeah you're right...i hadn't checked it out. I just downloaded it from the suckless page. Oh well, that'll teach me to download packages from the repositories from now on.
And yeah, OP's missing. It seems he either solved his/her problem and couldn't care enough to mark the post as solved, or just forgot altogether.