On Tuesday 02 September 2003 4:17 pm, Thinker wrote:
After everything I went through to try to get the system to stabilize, it finally got to the point where nothing would work (at all) so I decided to reinstalled the 8.2 system via ftp.
Sorry it came to that.
It seems someone should put a warning label out there for those newbies considering the installation of Ximain XD2 and red carpet. I hope I am not wrong in thinking that those utilities are the reason my machine died?
Actually there are warnings in the archives but you have to search for them. Most likely ximian caused the problem(see below).
Now for my real questions.
1. Now that I have a clean system, how exactly should I go about installing apt and after I install apt, should I never use Yast2 again?
Do you have the rpm's? Just follow the directions on the apt site. http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ REMOVE XIMIAN from sources.list. You can use YOU (Yast2 online update) any time you want, apt and YOU work well together.
2. I selected Gnome in the resinstallation. What is the difference between ULB GNOME 0.3.2 and the Gnome that comes with 8.2?
From www.usr-local-bin.org... "usr local bin is run by James Ogley, and was born out of the many and frequent discussions on the English Language SuSE mailing list about how to install the latest versions of various GNOME applications. Unlike a lot of people, I felt that "use Ximian GNOME" was not always the correct answer. Using Ximian GNOME is fine up to a point. That point tends to be when you decide to upgrade your entire SuSE distribution, when the differences in package names can cause real problems. The fact that some packages, especially libraries, are installed to different filesystem locations by Ximian can also cause some problems. Instead of ushering people down the Ximian route, I tried to help people build their own packages to SuSE specification, and would post lengthy lists of options for ./configure. However, a lot of people don't want to have all the development headers and libraries required to do this, and other people want to keep the "purity" of their RPM database so that what appears in there accurately reflects what is actually installed. " About James' Gnome (from his first version) ... I've been gradually building more and more core GNOME components, and have now decided to take the next step, and produce a drop-in replacement for SuSE's default GNOME setup. So here it is, ULB GNOME. no longer just a set of updated applications, nor a full-blown GNOME distribution, but a plugging of the gaps. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro