December 2007 - openSUSE GNOME - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-gnome] Re: Problem with pidgin-2.3.0-2.2_i586.rpm: Why is pidgin in /opt/gnome/bin?
by Michael Wolf 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

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(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] upgrade from GNOME:STABLE (10.2)
by Gabriel . 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

I tried to upgrade my 10.2 with the last gnome from GNOME:STABLE repository (x86). It seems there are some packages missing (I will try to list them later). My questions are: * Is this repository enough to update to gnome 2.20 from 2.16 (of openSUSE 10.2) or do I need to do anything else? * Are there any plans to get this repository working ? (I have no plans to upgrade to 10.3) -- Kind Regards Visitá/Go to >> http://www.opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME Meeting Thursday Dec 6 at 13:00CST/12:00 UTC
by JP Rosevear 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Greetings GNOME/openSUSE lovers, the GNOME team will be holding its next meeting this Thursday at 12:00 UTC (12:00 CET). Please note this is our once monthly meeting shift to accommodate Asian and Australian participation better. World times for the meeting at: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=06&month=12&year=2… Last meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071129 Next meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings/20071206 Calendar of all meetings: webcal://news.opensuse.org/?ec3_ical Meeting info: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Meetings Tasks: http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Tasks -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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