Hello, after a few years it is time to come back and ask questions (again). :-)
Last summer I found out that my Gnome setup was broken, I could not play the game GLines any longer. I know that this will not make you pay attention, the big alarm go off and everyone run around to their stations while yellow and/or red lights are flashing in a daunting way. But it is a symptom of a deeper problem with my Gnome setup and I would very much like some help. Alexander Hansen has given me some hints but it haven't gotten me all the way, and I have a few requests to the Fink community related to this, thus I decided that I should ask here. So, my system is a combination of binary and source packages installed from stable and unstable branch. If a package is available in binary I have preferred that since it would reduce the installation time, if it is too old and/or only available as source package I have selected the source package. If it is unstable or stable has not been of my concern, my experience of Fink, and Debian before that, is that unstable is far too stable to really be called unstable. That was praise if you didn't get it. :-) When I updated my system last summer I saw (I think) a brief message that some images has been removed due to a copyright infringement issue and I could no longer play GLines since all images for the game where gone. I thought that I should wait a while and see if they reappeared but they did not and a few weeks ago I started to dig into the issue and sent Alexander Hansen a mail and asked for help. I'm grateful for the help he has supplied but since he runs a complete system (I will get to this shortly), he couldn't help me very much. I've installed quite some parts of Gnome by now and been googling for solutions but have found none. Zip. Nil. The problem seems to be related to the fact that I have not installed the entire Gnome system, I've installed gnome-games and anything it depends on. This means that I e.g. did not have the Gnome panel. I've installed a few parts but it hasn't helped; I think that I need to tell Gnome to use a specific theme but since I do not have the complete system this fails (e.g. I cannot run the Control Center since it cannot load this or that file etc. etc.). I was thinking of installing bundle-gnome but the main problem with that is that I would then also download *and compile* firefox - something that I've already downloaded as an .app. I do not want to have two instances of the same program! Could someone help me find which packages I need to install so I can run glines from the Terminal so I can waste my time, please? I don't want the entire Gnome package as I will only use it for playing the Gnome games... If I need the whole system, I do not want to install Firefox - I would like to use my installed version of Omniweb instead for help viewing. I had the idea to use the equivs package to make a firefox-system package (I really liked the idea with xyz-system packages that where available in the old days, has that policy been abandoned? If not, could someone please build a generic web browser package that uses the system's default web browser?) - but l then found that the equivs package is not ported to Fink!? Is this a plan or just that someone haven't done it? Please, I have no ideas currently how I should be able to fix my setup, any help is appreciated. All I want is to be able to play glines, I don't want the Gnome panel running or something, I use X11 since the Gnome games uses it and not Aqua. I'm sorry, but I don't know what I need to tell you about my system (e.g. versions of this or that), please tell me and I'm happy to oblige. Thank you! /Jonas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
