I was able to get Gnome running on my 7500 by following the steps Vincent Danen listed in this post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&m=101423363620891&w=2
Basically, there are a lot of packages that need to be installed to get Gnome running, and it might be that they couldn't fit on the CDs. I have mirrored the cooker directory, so I installed the packages directly from there instead of from the CDs. Anyway, the list of packages that I installed are: libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1 fam libfam0 libcapplet1 libnautilus0 libpanel_applet0 librep9 libeel0 krb5-libs eel libsrvg1 Oaf And had to change a directory from /usr/lib/rep/0.15.2/powerpc-mandrake-linux-gnu/rep/data to /usr/lib/rep/0.15.2/ppc-mandrake-linux-gnu/rep/data After I made those changes, Gnome starts fine. I don't have the CDs with me now, so I can't confirm if those packages are on the CDs or not, but you should be able to get them from one of the mirrors. I think I just used rpm -Uvh to install the packages instaed of the software manager or urpmi. HTH, dc While emailing instead of doing something productive on 3/5/02 1:50 PM, John C. Tull wrote: > Is Gnome absolutely dead in 8.2 b1? I cannot successfully bring up a > gnome session from xdm login. Instead, my X-session seemingly restarts > itself (gray screen, black X after a moment of screen darkness, then xdm > again). KDE works fine. > > Similarly, gnumeric and some other gnome-based apps will not run from > within KDE. I checked my installed libs from the package manager > (Mandrake manager). Some of the gnome libs and ?.pixbuf.? were not > installed. On trying to install those from the CD's, the Mandrake > installer basically freezes the system while spinning the cd-rom almost > constantly. I had to hard reset because I could not bring up a virtual > terminal. > > Cheers, > John > > >
