Spent a couple days downloading and compiling. Having some experience compiling GTK apps, I knew a lot of the pitfalls and error solutions, so it all went fairly smoothly, except for locating a few libraries. I've never really liked gnome much. It looked too busy, cheesy, like a toy. This time it's different. Nice clean look. Much more spartan for the initial setup, though I suppose one could get back to the cheesy look if they tried. It's very simple to add menu and taskbar items. Apps seem to run really fast. The only but so far is that the menu adder, icon chooser doesn't show icons, so I have to browse to the icon file instead of selecting it from an icon view. I suppose that could be something I installed wrong. I do have compiling notes if anyone wants to attempt it. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.
On Sun September 19 2004 6:49 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Spent a couple days downloading and compiling. Having some experience compiling GTK apps, I knew a lot of the pitfalls and error solutions, so it all went fairly smoothly, except for locating a few libraries.
I've never really liked gnome much. It looked too busy, cheesy, like a toy. This time it's different. Nice clean look. Much more spartan for the initial setup, though I suppose one could get back to the cheesy look if they tried. It's very simple to add menu and taskbar items. Apps seem to run really fast. The only but so far is that the menu adder, icon chooser doesn't show icons, so I have to browse to the icon file instead of selecting it from an icon view. I suppose that could be something I installed wrong.
I do have compiling notes if anyone wants to attempt it.
I just set up a new user and am trying garnome out on it but would be interested in seeing your tips. I assume you did a systemwide install. Thanks for the offer BTW I'm using SuSE9.0. -- dh Don't shop at ZipZoomFly.com!
El Lunes, 20 de Septiembre de 2004 03:49, Jim Sabatke escribió:
Spent a couple days downloading and compiling. Having some experience compiling GTK apps, I knew a lot of the pitfalls and error solutions, so it all went fairly smoothly, except for locating a few libraries.
I've never really liked gnome much. It looked too busy, cheesy, like a toy. This time it's different. Nice clean look. Much more spartan for the initial setup, though I suppose one could get back to the cheesy look if they tried. It's very simple to add menu and taskbar items. Apps seem to run really fast. The only but so far is that the menu adder, icon chooser doesn't show icons, so I have to browse to the icon file instead of selecting it from an icon view. I suppose that could be something I installed wrong.
I do have compiling notes if anyone wants to attempt it. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.
Hi, I am using Suse 9.1 and I had problems compiling Gnome 2.8. It would be great if I could read your compiling notes. Could you send them? Cheers, Raúl -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://raulmoratalla.webcindario.com La web con información sobre Suse Linux y programación. Raúl Moratalla ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Raúl Moratalla wrote:
Hi, I am using Suse 9.1 and I had problems compiling Gnome 2.8. It would be great if I could read your compiling notes. Could you send them?
Cheers,
Raúl
Replying to all who request notes offlist. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:08, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Replying to all who request notes offlist. --
In that case - me too, please, Jim! Thanks for your trouble. David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 at The Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ “The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head.”
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Replying to all who request notes offlist. Please don't do that. I too am interested. When I am looking for information, I look in the archive to see if someone has already posted. This kind of information seems on topic to me and would be helpful now and in the future for someone searching the archive.
Damon Register
Damon Register wrote:
Jim Sabatke wrote:
Replying to all who request notes offlist.
Please don't do that. I too am interested. When I am looking for information, I look in the archive to see if someone has already posted. This kind of information seems on topic to me and would be helpful now and in the future for someone searching the archive.
Damon Register
OK, but I kept the notes in HTML format. Let's see if it copies and pastes in readable format: The Gnome 2.6 Update Project Current system: * SuSE 9.0 Pro Install Hints at: * http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rninstallation.html * http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/ Download directories: * http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.8/2.8.0/sources/ * http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.8/2.8.0/sources/ * http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.8/2.8.0/sources/ Supplemental Libraries: * pkg-config - http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.15.0.tar.... * Xf2 - http://fontconfig.org/ * fontconfig - http://fontconfig.org/ Installation Steps: Date Activity Notes 7-19-04 Finished downloading all source at ftp.gnome.org Dialup is slow. wget is a godsend. 7-19-04 Created this document 7-19-04 Downloaded pkg-config and xft2 7-19-04 Discovered that pkg-config and freetype were compiled, rpm'd and installed during my gimp2 install. 7-19-04 Found undocumented dependency, desktop-file-utils at freedesktop.org 7-19-04 Skipped dependency gnome-icon-theme. Couldn't find it anywhere, and references look like it is deprecated and replaced with gtkicontheme 7-19-04 Compile error on gnome-appets. A search of the web showed Suse has a problem putting glibconfig.h in the /opt/gnome/include directory, which gets picked up before the proper one. Moved it to a backup directory and the compile completed. 7-19-04 Can't find required meta-gnome-core. Posted a note to gnome support. 7-19-04 Can't find gnome-control-center. Compiled control-center assuming that is what they meant. 7-19-04 Found dependancy for gnome-icon-theme. Rechecked ftp.gnome.org and found it in the source directory. 7-19-04 gnome-icon-theme fails. It's looking for hicolor at http://freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases 7-19-04 Downloaded v. 0.5 of icon-theme, compiled and installed. gnome-icon-theme then installed properly. 7-19-04 Can't find gnome-doc-utils. Skipping it until it rears its head. 7-20-04 procman wouldn't configure. Errored on missing gnomeConf.sh. Stated it was in gnome-libs install, which is not in the download or install list. Downloaded gnome-libs v. 1.4.2. gnome-libs appears to be old. It says that the system doens't support dynamic linking and references CYGWIN. Skipping procman for now. Found the following advice on google search: unset LANG env var "export -n LANG=" Don't believe that had any effect. copied sed file into intl directory from glib to suppress error. I hope this is a correct patch. configure now continues Now fails on libgtop. Needs original libgtop apparently. libgtop2 is installed. Downloaded libgtop-1.0.13 Now fails on libgal libgal2 is installed Downloaded gal 0.24 from gnu. gal 0.24 requires libxml, not libxml2 downloaded libxml 1.8.17 from xmlsoft.org now gal requires gnomeprint 1 downloaded gnomeprint 1.116.3 from ftp.gnome.org configure warning: this version is not stable this version is really gnomeprint2 downloaded libgnomeprint 1..115.0 another v2 devel version ok, guessing here downloaded libgnomeprint-1.105.0 won't configure downloaded gnomepring 1.110 same problem giving up on procman for now NOTE: gconf-editor now compiles downloaded http://freshmeat.net/redir/docbook-utils/28776/url_tgz/docbook-utils-0.6.14.... removed docbook-utils 6.6 installed new docbook-utils --prefix=/usr had to copy /usr/share/sgml/openjade/sml.dcl to /usr/share/sgml gstreamer now compiles and installs! 7-20-04 gstream fails to compile. skipping for now. 7-20-04 ephiphany fails on mozilla-gtkmozembed requirement. Downloading latest mozilla to get code. 7-20-04 Requirement dbus not on gnome.org. Found and loaded from freedesktop.org 7-20-04 Requirement hal not on gnome.org. Found and loaded from freedesktop.org oops, later version required: http://freedesktop.org/~david/dist/ added group and user "haldemon" ./configure --with-hal-group=haldemon --with-hal-user=haldemon 7-20-04 gnomemeeting needs new pwlib v 1.6.5. Found it at www.gnomemeeting.org also needs openh323 v. 1.13.4 from same site both ./configure --prefix=/usr gnomemeeting then compiled -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. NOTE: Please do not email me any attachments with Microsoft extensions. They are deleted on my ISP's server before I ever see them, and no bounce message is sent.
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Damon Register
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David Herman
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David Robertson
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Jim Sabatke
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Raúl Moratalla