Does the SuSE 6 section only exist on ftp.gnome.org . I went to several
mirrors but have yet to find a SuSE 6 section on any of them.
Steve
>
> Hi-
>
> I got all the rpms from the suse 6 portion of www.gnome.org. I did not
> use yast because the website warns that using yast may cause a lot of
> dependency errors to crop up. Here is what I did; worked for me.
>
> *downloaded all the rpms (minus devel except for gnome-libs-devel and
> imlib-devel. These also failed the dependency check)
> into separate directory to lessen operator confusion
> *got out of windowmaker and gnome 99.8 to a console. I just felt more
> comfortable with this
> *attempted to do an rpm -Uvh *rpm in the directory I was in. That
> caused me to see all kinds of failed dependencies for gtk/glib. I was
> kind of lost at this point because I had compiled the gtk/glib stuff
> myself. I grabbed the gtkn/glibn packages and installed them for the
> purposes of getting stuff straightened out
> *everything went except for some missing file messages which rpm
> ignored and continued
> *then I reinstalled my gtk/glib stuff.
> *now I think I will have to download and upgrade the devel stuff.
> Thats the only way I can compile stuff.
>
> I booted windowomaker and got gnome working but I had a few issues.
> My issues were with earlier compiled programs looking for a link
> library which was gone. These apps included gedit, gmc, and xchat.
> I removed the self-compiled gedit and replaced it with the rpm and got
> gedit working. I also did this with gmc. I finally recompiled xchat
> as this is my favorite irc client of all time.
>
> Everything now works except for balsa. Balsa wants the old gtk libs.
> I dont use balsa but I want to get things back the way they were. I
> dont know what happens with gtk/glib when you do an rpm install. I
> honestly think that they go somewhere else other than the default
> /usr/lib since rpm -Uvh *rpm could not find my perfectly good gtk/glib
> self-compiled libs. More than likely, no entry in the rpm database is
> the scoundrel. I can compile gnome apps and gtk apps now so things
> seem okay.
>
> I know this seems like a meandering text and I apologize. I wanted to
> try to cover exactly what I did to get gnome working here.
>
> --
> Michael Perry
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