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Flaunch is meant to be a complete data analysis environment, allowing a user to customize many of its features for their particular taste and the way in which they operate. Unfortunately, sometimes problems occur. This document is meant to help with some of the more common questions that have cropped up during the development of this tool. In many cases more detailed discussions are presented on various pages, but usually people do not want to spend their time trying to find things, so this page was created.
The majority of problems occur due to a lack of information, which may cause a conflict to arise when the tool attempts to operate in their particular environment. Older versions of the Linux operating system have many problems with permissions - which MUST be correct for Flaunch to function. Specifically within the /dev directory, the world as well as group MUST have priveleges to write to null (i.e., /dev/null), also the world needs priveleges to write to all tty*'s and ptty*'s. There are also problems with several libraries, but you will know if you have that problem because you would not be able to get Tcl installed. Some of these problems only crop up under certain circumstances, but if you get a message from Flaunch it is invariably due to either a conflict in the users environment, or a problem with the operating system's installation. (Note this only occurred in Slackware 3.0 to my knowledge but I no longer use the Slackware distribution.)