Re: Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 00:09 Subject: Re: Re: gnome installation help > Edward, thanks for trying to help, I know I wasn't > very specific. > >

Re: Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Edward, thanks for trying to help, I know I wasn't very specific. I've successfully installed Debian 3.01 woody with the 'vanilla' option on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. Everything works at the command line, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, anything. However, I've tried with several video c

Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread Edward Murrell
ariations on apt-get install > . I get an Xserver could not start error... > > I *am* able to boot to Knoppix, which correctly > identifies my video card and runs KDE. > > Please give a basic list of commands or link to gnome > installation tutorial. It would be good to know w

gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to boot to Knoppix, which correctly identifies my video card and runs KDE. Please give a basic list of commands or link to gnome installation tutorial. Thanks!! __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfre

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-29 Thread stan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:49:09PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:01:11PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Well, here is what my existing /etc/apt/preferences file looks like: > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 900 > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:01:11PM -0500, stan wrote: > Well, here is what my existing /etc/apt/preferences file looks like: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=testing > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 500 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Prior

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-28 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:47:37PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to build a new machine for work this weekend. I'm running out of > > weekend, and I still have not mamanged to get a working Gnome install. > > > > What's the best

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-27 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm trying to build a new machine for work this weekend. I'm running out of > weekend, and I still have not mamanged to get a working Gnome install. > > What's the best way to get this working on a "testing" machine? It appears > that there m

How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new "testing" machine?

2003-10-26 Thread stan
I'm trying to build a new machine for work this weekend. I'm running out of weekend, and I still have not mamanged to get a working Gnome install. What's the best way to get this working on a "testing" machine? It appears that there may be unmet dependencies, is this curently true? -- "They that

Managing a public Debain Gnome installation

2002-01-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello everyone, I'm building up a box to be used publicly at our company for tasks such as archived fax viewing/printing, web browsing, and use of image libraries. I'd like to have a consistent starting point for all our company's users to being from. Here's my plan: 1) apt-get i

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "DG" == David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was DG> doing. Did you read http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml ? DG> My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not found", and DG> indeed there's no such thing on

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread David Gaudine
that too. - Original Message - From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Userslist Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:14 AM Subject: Re: GNOME installation screw-up > > >> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > M

Re: Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HvdB" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In addidtion to the answer you got: HvdB> out the dependencies and get the files from either HvdB> place. However, apt needs a packages.gz file for the directory HvdB> in order to know what is in the directory. I haven't figured out

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MMD" == Matthew Myers Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MMD> a) why X won't start as root (the account with "exec MMD> gnome-session" in the .xsession file) Check ~/.xsession-errors for clues about why it didn't start properly. MMD> c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the ab

Re: GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Venu
dear matthew :c) how to get out of XDM so that I can start fixing the above two problems try Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F6 will switch to vitual consoles where u can log in... cheers venu :I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the : :"exec gnome-session" : :line in my .

GNOME installation screw-up

1999-06-03 Thread Matthew Myers Davis
I downloaded the GNOME 1.0 distribution with apt, installed, put the "exec gnome-session" line in my .xsession file, and quit X to try out what I had done. Oops. I could have done the smart thing and logged out as Root before I put any GNOME startup stuff in a .xsession, but NOOO. I was too e

Re: Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-02 Thread shaleh
> > >M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install > >M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that > >M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to > >M> install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. > > > >You have to inst

Further question re. dpkg and apt (was: Re: GNOME Installation)

1999-06-02 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install >M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that >M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to >M> install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. > >You have to install these packa

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == Morgoth3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install M> libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that M> it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to M> install that, it says i need to already have lib

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jun-99 Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Good grief, is this true? If AOL doesn't allow this kind of > internet access then what the hell is AOL good for? Not good for much. I read that AOL will run on Wine, though. -- Andrew

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: dpkg -i pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ... -- On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to > continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having > libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 6/1/99 3:46:16 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > For future reference, why are you installing GNOME by hand? Is it not > easier > > to > > just do an "apt-get install task-gnome-desktop "? > > Am I correct in assuming apt

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
In a message dated 6/1/99 3:46:16 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For future reference, why are you installing GNOME by hand? Is it not easier > to > just do an "apt-get install task-gnome-desktop "? Am I correct in assuming apt-get needs a connection to the internet in

Re: GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:42:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to > continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having > libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install that, it says i need to >

GNOME Installation

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install that, it says i need to already have libgnome32 in. This happens with a few other files, also. W

GNOME installation

1999-05-31 Thread Morgoth3
I'm trying to install GNOME from floppy, and I've come across a problem. When I try to install libgnome32, i get dependencies, including dependencies on libgnomesupport0 and libgnomeui32. However, when i try and install these, I am informed I need to install libgnome32 first. What's going on

XDM doesn't start after Gnome installation!

1999-04-16 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi, I re-installed gnome (gmc gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-session gnome-game gnome-terminal gnome-utils) with the apt-get installation tool from Debian after an erroneous installation. This far, I didn't have any trouble or error message. Of course, some libs had to be updated to fulfill

gnome installation

1999-03-24 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, Thanks for the help on the gnome installation. I guess I just had to restart the system. When I did so, everything seemed to have worked fine. Shawn

Re: Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread frankie
Shawn Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just installed gnome on my system but nothing seems to be > happening. I am running the WindowMaker Manager. The tool box shows > some gnome stuff like the gnome panel but when I click on it nothing > happens, it's the same with everything else. Doe

Gnome Installation

1999-03-23 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've just installed gnome on my system but nothing seems to be happening. I am running the WindowMaker Manager. The tool box shows some gnome stuff like the gnome panel but when I click on it nothing happens, it's the same with everything else. Does anyone know where I can get infor

Gnome installation

1998-10-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!!! I just finished compiling Gnome 0.20 (with GTK 1.0) which included the following packages: mico, mc, gnome-libs, gnome-core, gnome-objc, gnome-utils, gnome-admin, gnome-graphics, gnome-games and now I have my /etc/X11/window-managers file look like this /usr/local/bin/gnome-se