Okay, I tried it out, and it attempts to replace a bunch of systemm libraries, so I chickened out, I guess I'll have to wait till the next release of suse for a complete gnome desktop. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:40:22 +0800, Adon Metcalfe wrote:

Thanks for the reply, I'll give it a shot and see how it goes :), and i'll post my results of my efforts to the list.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:34:27 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

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On Friday 02 July 2004 12.29, Adon Metcalfe wrote:

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Err, I tried installing ximian desktop and I got an error message saying that it couldn't detect my operating system. I read in a news article that suse 9.1 doesn't support because most of the funcionality is provided through suse rpm's anyway, Is there anyway I can bypass this? (i.e. edit the installer so it thinks i'm running suse 9.0 or something?)

The installer checks the file /etc/SuSE-release, if you really want to fool the installer into thinking you're running 9.0 then edit this file and change 9.1 to 9.0

But I really don't think it's a very good idea. Things are almost certain to not work right if you install the 9.0 packages on a 9.1 machine. The dependencies alone will probably kill you

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thanks a heap :) On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:31:19 +0200, Jesse Pretorius wrote:

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Okay, I tried it out, and it attempts to replace a bunch of systemm libraries, so I chickened out, I guess I'll have to wait till the next release of suse for a complete gnome desktop.

XD2 isn't available for SL Pro 9.1.

You can always try the 'experimental' version of XD2 - which may have newer packages and work for you. If I remember correctly you need to follow the normal path to get the installer running, but when it asks you where you wish to install from (RCX, mirror, etc), enter the host in the bottom field of 'herebedragons.ximian.com' and hit next.

Generally the shipping XD2 packages are older than those in SL Pro 9.1. Most of the customisation that was done in XD2 you can do for yourself in SL Pro 9.1.

You could also apply to participate in the 'Novell Linux Desktop' beta program: http://www.novell.com/betaprogram/novellbeta.jsp

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