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Re: gnome snapshot on 5.2?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Thu Dec 3 20:00:02 1998
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 19:35:47 EST."
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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 16:54:00 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@glacier.jpl.nasa.gov>
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phantoml@frontiernet.net said:
> "W. Wade, Hampton" wrote: I tried to load the gnome snapshot from the
> 5.2 CD. It fails with "failed dependencies, imlib 1.8 needed...",
> but imlib 1.8-5 is already loaded (rpm -qa). Any hints or should I
> get another snapshot from gnome? Should I try to manually load this?
> Will I break anything by loading gnome (things that use the
> production version of gtk, etc.)?
> I too had the same problem so I tried forcing it to install manually
> (nodeps) and when I tried to run it, I got an error about a missing
> gtk library which was there. SO I tried compiling everything from
> source and the gnome stuff repeatedly bombed while compiling. I've
> tried just about everything I can think of and I'm just about ready
> to scrap it for KDE which works fine on my system.
What worked for me was mounting the cdrom and cd'ing to /mnt/cdrom/gnome.
I tried the script, which didn't work for me at all; then tried doing an
"rpm -Uvh *.rpm". IIRC, the first time through I got a couple of errors.
The second time through it installed. Read through the install script &
did a bit of fiddling from there.
Remember that the current version of gnome is a release "for the fun of
it", and not really supported. I got it working, & then went back to
XFCE2 for now. Mind you , I like gnome. But I'll wait for the next
release.
Best
rickf
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