Hello from Gregg C Levine That's decidedly very interesting. And yes, I sympathize with you, as well. But here, I have gotten a GUI to work on my Slackware Linux setup. Each time, it has been either a native X-Windows, or that of KDE, or once, or twice Gnome.
Yes, it is difficult. Tux, wants everything perfect, when we choose to run a GUI. But not impossible. There are scads of books out there, that explain how to set such a GUI up. I haven't found a good solution for one thing, and probably won't, as a matter of fact. And Gnome is more particular about how things are setup. The system needs a root password, even when it is a single user system that is being setup. Just my opinions here folks. And only working, in NYC. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Fargusson.Alan > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Gnome > > I sympathize with you. I tried to get Gnome working on an iMac and a G4 > Macintosh, with SuSE Linux. Both were failures. > > I didn't have any success with KDE either. > > I think this is the main reason people still use Windows. It is just to hard to get GUI > working on Linux. > > On the up side, my new Dell with Windows/XP has been working for months > without a single crash. I am running MacOS X on the G4 now, but I am about to > give up on it. The Dell is actually working better for me. Also some of the software > I use is not available for the Mac. It isn't available for Linux either of course. I was > using Virtual PC, but that was much to slow for me. For some reason Visual C is > very slow on VPC. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Illingsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Gnome > > > Thanks. > > I believe that I made it through about half of those, and then gave up. I was just > surprised that GNOME wasn't somehow more 'self-contained' like the MySQL or > Webmin rpm's were. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/03 06:07PM >>> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:08, Post, Mark K wrote: > > Welcome to RPM. > > > > You could try this: > > cd /to/directory/with/RPMs > > rpm -Uvh --test gnome-* > > up2date is your friend, or apt 8) > > If I remember rightly the basic order is > > glib > gtk+ > imlib > ORBit > audiofile > libxml > gnome-libs > gdk-pixbuf > libghttp > libglade > libgtop > gnome-print > control-center > gnome-core > > but thats offhand
