Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

["Ralph Sanford" <rsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Earlier this week I reported on my problems getting Ximian Gnome to
properly install on a SuSE 7.1 or 7.2 system.  Others on this list have
had similar poor results with the install and additionally I had some
email exchange with Ximian.

FYI on Tuesday of this week the Ximian site was different from the site
on Monday and the Tuesday site indicated that SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 where
unsupported.  As of Thursday the Ximian site looked similar to Monday's
site and SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 are again shown as supported.

Charles A Edwards (SuSE List) had suggested removing the Ximian GDM
package and re-installing from the Ximian site.  I removed GDM and Glib,
then used the Ximian downloader to re-install Ximian Gnome. Did this
yesterday and Ximian choose to reinstall 5 packages on my 7.1 computer. 
Afterwards using KDM to select sessions would still result in KDE2 being
loaded when Gnome was selected.

I removed "Gnome" from the KDM login and replaced it with
"Gnome-session".  Now Ximian Gnome loads through the KDM login when
gnome-session is selected.  IMO the Ximian gnome user desktop is more
visually appealing than the Gnome 1.4 that could be downloaded from SuSE
for 7.1.  Need to play with it some to find out what the
advantages/disadvantages are.  The really good news is that Evolution
0.11 which was working on this box before the addition of gnome is still
working.

This weekend I will try the same method to upgrade the 7.2 computer.


Ralph Sanford        -        If your government does not trust you,
rsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    -    should you trust your government?

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