Dear Martin,
Thanks for the feedback for the Mandrake distro. ;-)
I will link your notes to my website so that it would save some more
time to other mandrake users.
To come back to your last point, this is the latest and greatest
code!!! These rpms have been built out of cvs.
--
With kind regards,
Didier.
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Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | Singapore Synchrotron light Source (SSLS)
Email: didier.casse AT_Remove_THE_N00SPAM gmail DOT com | Web:
http://ssls.nus.edu.sg
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:34:47 -0000, Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Against my normal better judgement and in complete contradiction to my
> ealier mail, I liked the look of those RPMs and had a spare hour on this
> snowy Friday afternoon so just went for it.
>
> I can happily report that E16.999 was a doddle to get going under Mandrake
> 10.1
>
> Now this was obviously already known since Didier's site has some notes on
> Madrake 10.1 on the front page, but just for the benefit of anyone else here
> is what I did since there were a couple of gotcha's.
>
> (DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT DON'T DO IT SINCE IT
> DOES INVOLVE --FORCE!)
>
> Firstly I uninstalled my E16 setup because I was getting rpm conflicts.
>
> 1. I did exactly as per Didier's site in the section "Attention Mandrake
> Users" (installing and sorting some locations of a few crypto libs)
> 2. I downloaded the contents of the FC2 rpm dir since I don't have apt or
> yum installed and I believe that path may not work under mdk anyway because
> of the following points.
> 3. Went to the dir I saved them to and just did an rpm -Uvh * and then noted
> what it was saying it was missing.
> 4. Installed all dependencies until I got it down to "freetype2" and
> "xine-lib" and one other xine related one.
> 5. Freetype2. Mdk calls this libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-devel apparently
> so checked these were installed and continued.
> 6. With the xine rpms, similar issue. They were called lib-xine rather than
> xine-lib. Something like that. Checked they were installed and continued.
> 7. "rpm -Uvh --force *" since I now knew everything it thought it was
> missing was in fact really there.
>
> Bingo.
>
> E doesn't show up in gdm yet. I'm looking at that, but for now I have
> "DESKTOP=enlightenment" in ~/.desktop and in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and that
> seems to do the job.
>
> Nice work Didier. I know maybe source build would get me the latest and
> greatest code and maybe guarantee my build a bit better, but in the space of
> about 30 minutes I'm now finding my way round a new environment that looks
> just stunning.
>
> Now all I need to do is just that. Find my way around :)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
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