Arnaud Chaudron wrote:
>
> > It will depend on what you want to try. To move from the full desktop
> > of KDE to a simple window manager, it's just a matter of installing the
> > window manager and editing one file.
> >
> > I recently downloaded the GNOME 1.0 packages to give them a try. After
> > quite a while of downloading, the installation was painless. The result
> > clearly shouldn't have been released as stable, but...
>
> Painless ??? HOW ??? I can't install it, I have a bunch of dep. problems
> ! :(
> If I force the installation, even Gimp don't work after that... Please
> post the way to install it !
Here's what I did from a fresh Mandrake 5.3 installation:
1) Grab all of the RPM packages from the GNOME 1.0 directory of an FTP
mirror.
2) If it's not already installed, install the umb-scheme-3.2-7.i386.rpm
package from the Mandrake distribution.
3) If it's not already installed, install the portmap-4.0-12.i386.rpm
from the Mandrake distribution.
4) Since you want to continue to use the current glib for GIMP and the
control panel tools, install the glib-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm package from the
GNOME distribution to be available alongside the old libraries using the
command:
rpm -i glib-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i gtk+-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
5) In order to be able to compile new GNOME apps, you'll need to
install the glib-devel package (it contains the include headers). So,
if it's installed, remove the older packages using:
rpm -e glib-devel
rpm -e gtk+-devel
6) Install the glib and gtk+ development packages using the command:
rpm -i glib-devel-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i gtk+-devel-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm
7) At this point, you've got those four packages installed, so move
them off to a safe directory out of the way of the rest of the
installation. Here's what I used:
mkdir installed
mv glib-* installed/.
mv gtk+-* installed/.
8) Now you're ready to install the rest of the packages! Use the
following to install them:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
**NOTE: You will probably get errors during the installation of the
gdm package about a certain user not existing and that it's going to
use
root. No worries, it's normal.
**NOTE 2: You will also probably get errors during the installation of
the gnome-pim-devel package about it being unable to remove some
directories.
Again, ignore them, they're normal.
9) It's time to make GNOME start when X starts. So, fire up your
favorite text editor and edit a file called .xinitrc in your home
directory. The file doesn't exist after a fresh install of Mandrake, so
you'll probably be creating it for the first time. Here's what should
be in the file:
exec gnome-session
10) Now make the .xinitrc file executable so startx (actually xinit)
can run it when you start X. Use:
chmod +x .xinitrc
**NOTE: If you use XDM to start X sessions, you'll want to create a
symlink
between .xinitrc and .xsession to have it read during startup.
11) You should be all set! GNOME is ready to use. Just use 'startx'
to launch X and you'll be inside the GNOME environment.
If anyone wants to take these instructions, clean them up for real
distribution, and make them available on the Web for other Mandrake
users, please feel free.
--
Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
