Hi On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:04 +0100, Johannes Kastl wrote:

Hello,

I found the GNOME Community repository last week, and was glad to get a version of pidgin for my 10.2 without having to use the GNOME:STABLE-Repository, which seems very unstable to me (but that is another issue).

But: I was surprised to find the pidgin executable no longer in /usr/bin/, but in /opt/gnome/bin/, which is not in my $PATH, so I had trouble finding it.

Any special reason for this? Is this just a mistake, or is this planned, has this been changed? Before, when using the GNOME:STABLE-Repository, I found pidgin in /usr/bin, so I was surprised. Maybe you can shed some light on this issue.

The short answer is that it's a mistake and we are aware of it. The longer answer is: In 10.2, GNOME was installed in /opt/gnome. For 10.3, we moved GNOME to /usr. GNOME:STABLE is, at the moment, GNOME as shipped in 10.3, slightly updated and backported to older distros. So GNOME:STABLE installed onto 10.2 will go into /usr. The packages in GNOME:Community assume a vanilla 10.2 (or 10.1 or 10.3) installation, and don't take into account that users with GNOME:STABLE installed have a system quite different. We have created new repositories within GNOME:Community for cases similar to yours. In http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Community/ you'll see a openSUSE_10.3+GNOME_STABLE repository, and several others like it. James Ogley told me today on IRC that he'll be creating analogous repositories, but for 10.2, soon. He's been busy with Real Life these days, however. If you'd like my help in seting them up, ask away. Once these new repositories have been created, and the GNOME:Community packages have been built for them, the problem should go away. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org