I installed Hunspell, but when it came to installing a dictionary I found the link to be broken...
Trying to compile enchant which detects Hunspell, the compile bombs on can not find hunspell.cxx. Background for people confused about my goals concerning Gnome: As far as installing Gnome in a non standard location, I am curious why it is so hard to make that work? I found that even putting the odd library locations in /etc/ld.so.conf that things still didn't work. I started over so that /usr/gnome is being used as a build directory and package repository instead of an installation target. I hope the Gnome people realize that Gnome is getting to be like Windows 98 was back in the day where everyone screamed about Internet Explorer being integrated when they wanted Netscape instead. I realize that evolution usually comes with Gnome, but I don't need evolution on a system intended for backup/restoration of other systems. My suspicion that the book doesn't document well what can be left out when building Gnome seems to be correct. I know for a fact that evolution itself can be uninstalled in Fedora without hobbling Gnome. Even wireless tools and Network Manager are listed as requirements for Gnome, I want to leave both out for two reasons. Reason one is that Network Manager could muck with the wired network interface and break the NFS root. Reason two is that I don't intend to support wireless interfaces in a backup/restoration environment. Wireless links are slow and unstable, not ideal for NFS root. I hope people don't really think I'm complaining, I'm just noticing more than anything how many dependencies there are for full blown Gnome and how difficult it is to determine if any of them can be safely dropped. I've been pursuing a Gnome installation for a few different reasons. Education, I need to understand what is in a Linux system because I want to become Linux certified. User friendliness, I'm putting this network system together for people who don't feel comfortable at the command line that will benefit from having it as a sort of fallback when their local systems break. Reason three involves Gnome specific applications that might make sense. For a pdf reader, the Gnome specific choices may be preferable. There are Gnome specific game demos I'd like to throw in as a nice touch, though I have to figure out how to compile 32 bit libs for them. I'm thinking that LibreOffice may require Gnome or KDE. I want graphical logins, user friendliness idea, where GDM seems to be the way to go. I'm thinking I may want to start in runlevel 3 text mode and have a post login script that gives a menu allowing selection of Runlevel 4, which will trigger GDM. Another option is to put type /sbin/telinit 4 to get graphical logins in /etc/motd. I have fluxbox and twm right now, but fluxbox has to be started manually. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
