On Wed, 27 May 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have doenloaded gnome from slink and yes it I ran dpkg on it and it > seems to be well installed but how do I use it? I thought it would be like > the nice KDE desktop but it just seems to be eating my disk space. How do > I run it? Why is there no documentation about running it? >
I think that's the ancient Gnome 0.13. It doesn't do much and there was very little in the way of docs due to the alpha quality of the software. Gnome is *still* alpha software, and you should not expect it to be a nice, usable desktop yet (though it is getting there, and it is fun to play with and does work most of the time). If you keep in mind that it is *not finished*, and should not be compared to finished software like KDE, you can learn how to download and compile a recent development version on www.gnome.org. You should use the anonymous CVS, and you will need around 300 MB of disk for the compile, maybe a little more even. It is *not* easy to compile, because it requires lots of auxiliary packages and if you don't have them the errors can be cryptic. Try following the instructions on the web page, but if you don't know automake/autoconf very well, expect to ask questions. The appropriate forum for that is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember that this is development software, and everything will be easier to try out when it goes into production. For now you should only try it if you're curious and patient. Good luck! Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
