Ok all you gdm lovers... easer than all the compile it yourself stuff would be using these apt lines:
deb http://mlei.mtmis.com/debian ./ deb-src http://mlei.mtmis.com/debian ./ Don't remember who made the packages(ie, not me) but they work great for me... have for a while. Dan On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:43, christophe barbe wrote: > I use to get gdm from there: > > http://files.hadess.net/debian/ > > I don't see a good reason to keep gdm1. I remember that before gnome2 > hits sid, the excuse was that gnome2 was not in sid. Now it's just a > package that need to be adopted (read hijacked) IMHO. > > It would not be funny to see the next release with gnome2 and gdm1. > > Christophe > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:53:24PM -0330, Ian Penney wrote: > > > > Downloaded from http://files.hadess.net/debian/ > > gdm2_2.4.0.11-1.diff.gz > > gdm2_2.4.0.11-1.dsc > > gdm2_2.4.0.11.orig.tar.gz > > > > Patched the original source. > > Tried to compile it... > > Realized I'd need some library -dev packages, apt-get install'ed them. > > Added the following lines to vicious-extensions/ve-misc.c, > > because it wouldn't compile. > > #include <langinfo.h> > > #include <locale.h> > > chmod 755 debian/rules > > run dpkg-buildpackage > > Uninstall gdm if you've got it. > > dpkg --purge gdm, make sure all the crap is out. > > dpkg --install ./gdm2_2.4.0.11-1_i386.deb > > I found that the /var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.prerm script referred to > > /etc/init.d/gdm2, instead of /etc/init.d/gdm, fixed that. > > Found that libpam was having a little problem.. > > Downgraded to libpam-modules and libpam0g 0.72-35. > > Ran up gdm2 and gave it a nice looking theme from art.gnome.org using > > gdmconf! > > > > I sure hope this helps somebody out! I spent the majority of a sunday > > afternoon at this, neglecting a Computer Science assignment on hashing. > > > > This isn't a flawless solution, but I hope some users can make use of it > > until Ryan gets around to packaging gdm2 properly. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Christophe Barb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > A qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. > (Intelligenti pauca.) >
