Michael Perry wrote:
>
> On 6 Mar, Joop Boonen wrote:
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I'm also trying to instal Gnome 1.0.1. I also have problems with the libs
> > can you please tell me where you got the libs from? And if the is a special
> > way to instal them how did you install them?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joop.
> >
> >
> > Michael Perry wrote:
> >
> >> I managed tonite to download all kinds of gnomeish stuff for the
> >> upgrade. I had some serious worry points with the self-compiled
> >> gtk/glib stuff. In fact, the rpms failed finding the libs. I had only
> >> three applications break because they were looking for libs from an
> >> earlier compilation. I got these sorted out tonite and have a working
> >> gnome 1.0.1 system basically intact. I managed to get two of the three
> >> apps working. If I want balsa I will have to recompile it appears.
> >> So thats my story and Im stuck with it. This is definitely one of those
> >> situations where I append a YMMV after the success.
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> 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.
Does rpm --rebuilddb help?
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