Once I get my modem problems slugged out I will try installing these. Did you use rpm to install or a GUI? Mandrake install (not sure what the package installer GUI is really called as I am on a Mac OS X machine currently) was causing me some real grief.
Cheers, John On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 02:20 PM, David Cheng wrote: > 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
