On Thursday 06 February 2003 4:30 pm, Henry Harpending wrote:
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:16:12PM +0000, Keith Powell wrote:
Hello Henry and Anders
In reply to my query about RPMs of Gnome 2.2, you say that you have installed the Garnome version.
Whenever I have looked at Garnome, I have found that it is bleeding edge, and for developers and experienced experimenters only. I was told that it is definitely not for ordinary users of Gnome. As I am a very ordinary user, I have kept away from it.
However, as you say that it installs and runs without problems, I'll have a look at Garnome again. thanks for the link to it.
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Have your CDs at hand since the make will likely stop and demand header files unless you have development RPMs installed. I recall one glitch with installing garnome on 8.1: there is apparently a missing definition in /usr/lib/popt.h. I looked at popt.h from SuSE 8.0, found the definition, and added this line to popt.h on my 8.1 system:
#define POPT_TABLEEND {NULL, '\0', 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL }
With that done, I simply downloaded the tar.bz2 file from the garnome site, extracted it, changed to the garnome-0,21/meta/gnome-desktop directory, typed "make", and several hours later it was finished. It installs all of gnome by default in a subdirectory of your home directory. You start it with several lines in ~/.xinitrc that set the path and the library path. The virtue of this is that it doesn't put things in your system directories and is invisible if you do not start it.
Henry Harpending
Hello Henry. Thank you for the information. I'll have the CDs standing by. As I have not used garnome before, could I ask some basic questions, please? Is each package downloaded and installed immediately, or are they all downloaded first and then all installed? If the latter, I assume that I could disconnect from the internet when they start installing. Thus cutting down on the time I am connected. ( I am limited as to the length of time I can connect each week). Also, if they are installed after all being downloaded, will I need the CDs just during the installation? It would save me having to keep watching the download. Sorry these are such basic questions. -- Cheers Keith