What is the problem you were having? My experience has been just the
opposite. With Redhat, SuSE, and Slackware I was able to get a GUI pretty
much 'out of the box'. Some twiddling was needed with Slackware. Nothing
rocket science.
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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.
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From: Kenneth Illingsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:20 AM
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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.
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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:08, Post, Mark K wrote:
> Welcome to RPM.
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> 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
