Helix Gnome

2002-01-16 Thread Aldous B Bernardo
I have a Libranet(1.82) cd and I wish to use the Helix gnome packages in it. I noticed that it is for woody ( or what I see in the directory structure). I tried one package to see if it will work. I tried grip and it needs libgtk... ( that's all I remember) anyway, I have this 1.2.0 whi

helix gnome vs sid (apt problem)

2001-06-24 Thread ocorrain
I seem to have screwed up my system by changing apt-lines from helix-gnome to sid, and partially de-installing gnome. Now, whenever I try to apt-get install anything, I get the following. Can anyone help? aurelius:/home/ocorrain# apt-get install kppp Reading Package Lists... Done Building

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-20 Thread Ross Boylan
ge. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. > > that's the stupid part about all this: ximian calls woody "unstable" on > their spidermonkey server, yet it will, as it seems, only work on a > stable (potato) system.. tsts.. > > frank. The n

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
ge. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. > > that's the stupid part about all this: ximian calls woody "unstable" on > their spidermonkey server, yet it will, as it seems, only work on a > stable (potato) system.. tsts.. Kinda makes you wonder if you know

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-19 Thread Frank Preut
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:12:09AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > At 12:27 AM 4/18/01 -0400, joeytsai wrote: > Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's > certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody. that's the stupid

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread Ross Boylan
(they have ximian or helix in their version) and use Debian's. // joey tsai I'm running testing (woody). What's the right move for that? Also, I noticed some other threads referred to ximian for stable; that's certainly a change. I remember when I got Helix Gnome it required woody.

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread joeytsai
> Since I've been running "sid" and Ximian's Gnome packages, until I did > an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday, I saw no problems. Then, I ran into > a similar problem as the original poster -- there was a debian package > newer than the ximian one and it caused a brief headache. > > Why exactly s

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
> If you are running unstable (sid), you should not be running > Ximian's Gnome. Purge their packages (they have ximian or > helix in their version) and use Debian's. Since I've been running "sid" and Ximian's Gnome packages, until I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" yesterday, I saw no problems. Then

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a similar problem, but slightly different packages: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but > 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed > libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-d

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread joeytsai
:: Ross Boylan :: > Is this a bug with anything, or just an inevitable result of trying to put > unlike things (ximian and debian) together? If you are running unstable (sid), you should not be running Ximian's Gnome. Purge their packages (they have ximian or helix in their version) and use Debian

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-17 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a similar problem, but slightly different packages: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libgnomesupport0: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed libgnomeui32: Depends: gnome-libs-data (>= 1.2.13-4) but 1.2.11-ximian.1 is installed

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
> dpkg --purge gnome-control-center gnome-panel > > then do the rest of the ximian/helix purging as described earlier. > > also make sure your sources.list do NOT contain ximian or helix > sources and run apt-get update. Thanks for your help, that did the trick. I think I'll try Windowmaker

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > this may only affect the woody dpkg but setting COLLUMS (that looks > spelled wrong) will adjust this. Very nice! I had no idea. Thanks. Oh, it's COLUMNS. :) > i think apt has a --force-downgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]$ apt-get --force-downgra

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:20:16PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of > "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers t

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread David Steinberg
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > Minor point: you might want to make that "grep ximi" instead of "grep ximian", given that helix/ximian version numbers tend to be quite long, and "dpkg -l" offers no way to specify a field width. I (mos

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +0100, Simon wrote: > I cannot remove any of the packages. Whatever I attempt to remove I > just get the following error:- > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Simon
On (15/04/01 14:45), Ethan Benson wrote: > purge every gnome package. removing task-* packages does not remove > anything. > > dpkg -l | grep ximian > > dpkg -l | grep helix > > > then try a apt-get install task-gnome with your sources.list NOT > including ximian/helix. > I cannot remove a

Re: newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 11:36:52PM +0100, simon wrote: > I cannot apt-get -f install out of it as that fails with the same > error. I thought I would remove helix completely and then reinstall > gnome, but apt is telling me I do not have task-helix-gnome > installed. I'm at a bi

newbie fighting with Helix Gnome

2001-04-15 Thread simon
I'm new to Linux and even newer to Debian. I am running woody, and today (15th) I did an apt-get upgrade that's messed up Gnome. I was running Helix Gnome, although I did plan to remove it and go back to plain Gnome...whatever the update did today it seems to have replaced parts of H

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Pollywog
> > >Is there an ftp equivalent? I am having trouble getting apt-get to work > >using http, and am limited to using the ftp method at teh moment. > > You can download the packages with wget and add a line pointing > to their location on your harddisk to sources.list (that's what I

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-02 Thread Felix E. Klee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've found >>that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring basis. I have installed them on three computers with different configurations and had no pro

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-03-01 Thread Stan Brown
On Wed Feb 28 21:49:39 2001 Greg Gilbert wrote... > >The following line works: >deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main > >But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've >found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring >basis. >

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Mircea Luca
David Steinberg wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Gilbert wrote: > > > But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've > > found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring > > basis. > > Really? I've been using Helix/Ximian on Debian (first potato then > wood

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread David Steinberg
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Gilbert wrote: > But I'd highly recommend against using the Helix packages. I've > found that they have conflicts with other packages on a recurring > basis. Really? I've been using Helix/Ximian on Debian (first potato then woody) for a couple of months now, and I haven

Re: Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Greg Gilbert
ED]) wrote: > Hi, what is the correct path to get Helix-Gnome in sources.list and the > apt-get command I should exec? > > I've been trying some stuff but couldnt make it work! > > I wish to get the latest Helix version (Xivian?) > > Regards, > > Martin.

Getting Helix-Gnome

2001-02-28 Thread Martin Marconcini
Hi, what is the correct path to get Helix-Gnome in sources.list and the apt-get command I should exec?   I've been trying some stuff but couldnt make it work!   I wish to get the latest Helix version (Xivian?)   Regards,   Martin.

Re: helix gnome sound support not working

2001-02-06 Thread Brian May
> "Moritz" == Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Moritz> Do you have xmms configured to use the esd output plugin? Moritz> (I've no idea about the other programs...) I would have thought this was the default. Oh, wait, no, its trying to use the OSS plugin. Thanks for your sugg

Re: helix gnome sound support not working

2001-02-05 Thread Moritz Schulte
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not been able to get sound support working under Helix Gnome > for several weeks now. > > esdplay works fine, but no Gnome programs work (xmms and Gnome Control > Centre for instance). Do you have xmms configured to use the esd

helix gnome sound support not working

2001-02-05 Thread Brian May
Hello, I have not been able to get sound support working under Helix Gnome for several weeks now. esdplay works fine, but no Gnome programs work (xmms and Gnome Control Centre for instance). (xmms works if I kill esd first). Any ideas? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Steve Cooper
When I try to run gnomecc it crashes out of X and returns me to my KDM prompt. Is Gnome currently broken under Woody? == Steve Cooper (working for somebody else in Redmond, WA) > > Subject: Re: Helix gnome control center freezes > Date: Wed, 3

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
window just freezes and doesn't show > any contents of menus. I know Helix gnome is not a part of official Debian > dist but since it happened after the upgrade, I was wandering ther's any > conflict between Helix Gnome and new Debian. > > Has anyone had the same problem?

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Kristian Rink
And Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave word to the following thoughts: > I can't provide a solution but I've had the same problem. Try running > the control center using strace. You'll probably see that it tries to > find all kind of librep/rep-gtk related things. You need to fiddle > aro

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Remco van de Meent
Seung-woo Nam wrote: > Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the > Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, > focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just > freezes and doesn't show any contents of men

Re: Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-03 Thread Paolo Pedaletti
Salve Seung-woo Nam, > Has anyone had the same problem? me too :-( -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa www.fastflow.it/~paolop [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4755831

Helix gnome control center freezes

2001-01-02 Thread Seung-woo Nam
Hi everyone: Since I upgraded my Debian system from 2.2_rev0 to 2.2_rev2, all the Sawfish menus in Gnome control center wouldn't work (appearance, focus behaviour, etc.). When I click on any of those the window just freezes and doesn't show any contents of menus. I know Helix gnom

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
t; If I understand you right, it is probably best to do completely without a > display manager and instead use an ".xsession" file in my home directory > from which I start the corresponding session. What script do I have to > execute for starting Helix Gnome? > The way

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread csj
corresponding session. What script do I have to > execute for starting Helix Gnome? I think it's gnome-session. Try KDM, to add a session you just go as root to the appropriate dialog in kcontrol [System > Login manager > Sessions tab]. The session name is the name of the bash command y

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
> If I understand you right, it is probably best to do completely without a > display manager and instead use an ".xsession" file in my home directory > from which I start the corresponding session. What script do I have to > execute for starting Helix Gnome? No, not at all.

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
g in. If I understand you right, it is probably best to do completely without a display manager and instead use an ".xsession" file in my home directory from which I start the corresponding session. What script do I have to execute for starting Helix Gnome? Thanks! Greetings, Holger

Re: Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:15:27PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > > How can I switch between KDE and Helix-Gnome when both are installed on > the system? Unfortunately, I can not install gdm and kdm at the same time, > so I'm not sure what to do. One solution might be to do witho

Switching between KDE & Helix-Gnome

2000-12-29 Thread Holger Rauch
Hello! How can I switch between KDE and Helix-Gnome when both are installed on the system? Unfortunately, I can not install gdm and kdm at the same time, so I'm not sure what to do. One solution might be to do without an X display manager entirely, but then I'm not sure whether I can

Re: helix gnome vs. woody gnome

2000-12-13 Thread Kai Weber
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > packages? Are they as stable? Is there any strange behavior? Do they > contain as many programs as are available in the Helix packages? What are > the pros and cons of each? I switched over to a clean woody only system some days ago. I have to do some co

Re: [SOLVED] Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-10 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:11:15AM +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: > Well, what I did was, set it to sawfish for a moment and then set it back > to enlightenment that seemed to help a little for both problems. But I > think we should report it as a bug. The problem seemed to lie in the fact that libr

Re: Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-10 Thread Leen Besselink
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Rob VanFleet wrote: > For some reason, the gnome control center doesn't want me to configure any > sawfish aspects. When I click on any of the sawfish configuration options, > the > left pane displays nothing, and eventually, the entire app freezes and has to > be killed. > >

Re: Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-10 Thread Jamil
I had this problem as well, you need to install the rep packages from helixcode manually for some reason they don't install with task-helix-gnome. Jamil > For some reason, the gnome control center doesn't want me to configure any > sawfish aspects. When I click on an

Helix-gnome control center problems

2000-12-09 Thread Rob VanFleet
For some reason, the gnome control center doesn't want me to configure any sawfish aspects. When I click on any of the sawfish configuration options, the left pane displays nothing, and eventually, the entire app freezes and has to be killed. Another thing I noticed is that the control center oft

helix gnome vs. woody gnome

2000-12-08 Thread debuser
About a month ago when installing a new system, I tried installing the Gnome that comes with Woody (I've been using Helix Gnome on other systems). I saw some strange behavior, but perhaps it was because I didn't have a lot of suggested packages installed at the time. And, although a tri

Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-08 Thread debuser
This doesn't work because helix is in the version number, not the package name (except for about 3 packages). The matching seems only to match the package name. On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"' > should nuke ev

Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove "helix*"' should nuke everything that has the string 'helix' in its name. Note that apt-get does a substring match with the package name, so 'helix*' will be matched no matter where in the name it is. Also note, that you need the q

How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-07 Thread Scott Patterson
I'm interested in following the Woody releases of GNOME instead of Helix Code's. Problem is, how do I remove ALL the Helix Code packages. Seeing they all have "helix" in their package name, a simple script should easily do this. Too bad I'm not that familiar with dpkg and apt. Going manually throug

Re: Helix Gnome

2000-11-22 Thread Josh McKinney
You don't need to. On approximately Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:35:22AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > Should I deinstall Gnome in order to install Helix Gnome in a Debian 2.2 > machine? > Thanks in advance > Marcelo > _ > Marcelo C

Helix Gnome

2000-11-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! Should I deinstall Gnome in order to install Helix Gnome in a Debian 2.2 machine? Thanks in advance Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-13 Thread Michael Epting
Sometime this morning, Helix made new packages available. I´ll bet it all works OK now, so ignore my earlier post. On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 09:55:07PM -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. > > dimmu:~# apt-get install task-helix-gnome >

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-13 Thread Michael Epting
Since the problem is a conflict between Helix and Debian versions of some libraries, perhaps you can temporarily comment out the Debian lines in your sources.list, do an apt-get update and then try apt-get install task-helix-gnome. Don´t forget to fix your sources.list afterwards or you won´t

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote: > I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. Thats an interesting apt quirk, just list all the packages at once: auric{jgg}~/apt2/build/bin#./apt-get install task-helix-gnome task-helix-core sawfish-gnome rep-gtk-gnome libgdk-pixbu

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-12 Thread Christoph Simon
> So I apt-get install task-helix-core. I get the same message, but wirh > sawfish-gnome. I install sawfush-gnome, now I get this same message about > rep-gtk-gnome. This goes on and on through more packages until : > > dimmu:~# apt-get install libgdk-pixbuf2 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Bu

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ dependancy problem elided ] > Has anybody else encountered this? Is there woody boxes out there > running Helix?! I see this also, but I've already got a working install of Helix Gnome, so it

Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-12 Thread Joel Dinel
I can't seem to install Helix Gnome on my woody box. dimmu:~# apt-get install task-helix-gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the uns

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread David Z. Maze
Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:37PM +, Greg Gilbert wrote: GG> Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said GG> not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They GG> are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are will

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Greg Gilbert
The biggest issue is whether your videocard is support. Not everything supported in 3.3.6 is working in 4.0.1. Check at www.xfree86.org. If you have an nvidia, matrox, 3dfx, or ati videocard you should be fine. I'm not near my machine right now, but you can get the sources line from www.debian.org/

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Joel Dinel
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:03:37PM +, Greg Gilbert wrote: > Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said > not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They > are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are willing to upgrade. If you > don't want to upgrade, you

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
> I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... > (snip) Strange, I never had a probem with potato. Is this your sources.list line for helix? deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main -- I did not vote for the Austrian government Linux: The

Re: Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-02 Thread Greg Gilbert
ually. Greg * Joel Dinel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... > > apt-get install task-helix-gnome > - SNIP SNIP - > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: >task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix

Can't install Helix Gnome

2000-11-02 Thread Joel Dinel
I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ... apt-get install task-helix-gnome - SNIP SNIP - Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix-core but it is not going to be installedE: Sorry, broken packages Ok ... so : ap

Re: helix gnome & WindowMaker

2000-10-20 Thread G Mc.Pherson
Hi Stefan, On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > After an upgrade (and a reboot) I have problems running WindowMaker under > Helix Gnome. > Gnome complains saying running a non gnome compliant windowmanger and > WindowMaker does > not start and I can&

helix gnome & WindowMaker

2000-10-20 Thread stefan goeman
Hello, After an upgrade (and a reboot) I have problems running WindowMaker under Helix Gnome. Gnome complains saying running a non gnome compliant windowmanger and WindowMaker does not start and I can't use Gnome either. I have to delete my .gnome directory so that the sawfish windowmanag

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread John Travis
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:51:53 -0400 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Martin Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME > > I find that the menu editor die

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread Richard Black
Me too. I reported to gnome as a bug. Martin Weinberg wrote: > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit > any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is > Helix + up-to-date Potato. > > Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? > > TIA, > > --Martin > > -- > Uns

Re: Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Kai Weber
+ Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, > you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Any idea how to get the debian-menu back into the sawfish applications-menu which pops up when I press middle mouse button? It was gone some

Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

2000-10-12 Thread Martin Weinberg
I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit any user menu with the latest Helix version. The system is Helix + up-to-date Potato. Has anyone else seen this and/or know a fix? TIA, --Martin

Re-enabling Debian menus in Helix GNOME foot menu

2000-10-12 Thread Thomas Hood
Here's something it took me a while to figure out. To enable the Debian menu hierarchy in Helix GNOME, you have to go into the GNOME Control Center (under Programs|Settings) and on the "Menu" tab in the "Global Menu" box enable "Distribution" either "in the menu" or "in a submenu". Thomas Hood

Helix GNOME and Debian GNOME incompatible

2000-10-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi folks, hi Peter, I just had sawfish malfunction in a strange way: I've bound M-F10 to Popup Window Menu. But that suddenly stopped working... and worse, even clicking into the window icon for the popup window did nothing. So I investigated... reinstalling a couple things. And, this morning,

Re: Helix gnome on debian 2.2....

2000-09-25 Thread Andrew D Dixon
  use     >apt-get install task-helix-gnome after you set up your sources.list file.  The install instructions at     http://www.helixcode.com are very good.  I installed helix-gnome from fvwm2 without a hitch (I did have to restart my potato box though) but since then I have hosed sawmill

Re: Helix gnome on debian 2.2....

2000-09-24 Thread Rino Mardo
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:20:49AM +0100 or thereabouts, Rus wrote: > Hi, an introduction.. my name's Rus.. I've been using RedHat for a bit.. and > now I'm making the jump to debs.. :-) > > Anyways... I'm just wondering if their is anything I should know about

Helix gnome on debian 2.2....

2000-09-24 Thread Rus
Hi, an introduction.. my name's Rus.. I've been using RedHat for a bit.. and now I'm making the jump to debs.. :-)   Anyways... I'm just wondering if their is anything I should know about installing Helix gnome on top of Debian 2.2? I don't just want to 'upgrade

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-18 Thread TODD WITTER
When I installed Helix, it asked what I wanted installed. I chose not to install the games. And it did just that. On 17 Sep 00, at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > > This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > >> This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the >> games >> and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. > > Uhh.. So why not j

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games > and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. Uhh.. So why not just purge the games along with task-helix-gnome? Problem solved.

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Sep-2000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote: >> I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I >> installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. >> gdm is bad. I sa

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Pollywog
This Helix-Gnome thing is very nice, but I wish I could get rid of the games and stuff I don't use. I will have to suggest this to the developers. -- Andrew On 17-Sep-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I > installed all sort

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:39:42PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I > installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. > gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe th

RE: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Pollywog
I followed the instructions for installing Helix-Gnome via apt-get and I installed all sorts of things I did not want or need, like games and gdm. gdm is bad. I saw it and disabled the startup script for it. I believe that if I uninstall task-helix-gnome, that will render my system useless, so I

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:26:53PM +, Pollywog wrote: > I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it > anywhere? > What is so good about it and where can I get it? see http://www.helixcode.com. Helix Code packages GNOME for many distributions (also for Debia

Re: what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere? > What is so good about it and where can I get it? http://www.helixcode.com/

what is Helix-Gnome?

2000-09-17 Thread Pollywog
I see many posts about Helix-Gnome but I can't seem to find it anywhere? What is so good about it and where can I get it? thanks -- Andrew

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 06:45:58PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > They hope to eventually make money off of services: > > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/236/business/A_user_friendly_face_lift_for_Linux+.shtml > > > Plus, you have to trust them in that the sources that they put up are > the one

Re: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-15 Thread Andy Bastien
There are those who would have you believe that Michael Soulier wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:48:01 -0400 (EDT) > From: Michael Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Users List > Subject: RE: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh&

RE: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-15 Thread Michael Soulier
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > gnome in debian came from gnome.org, not helixcode. Yes, my terminology was incorrect, but the question stands. If gnome is running the gnome project, but helix is extending it, what's the current status between them? Does helix have comme

RE: Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 15-Sep-2000 Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. Is there any real difference between the gnome binaries > on the debian ftp site and the binaries on the helixcode website? If I > want to install Gnome, what's the major difference? > gnome in debian came from gnome.org, not helixcode.

Debian Gnome vs. Helix Gnome

2000-09-15 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. Is there any real difference between the gnome binaries on the debian ftp site and the binaries on the helixcode website? If I want to install Gnome, what's the major difference? Mike "To listen to the words of the learned, and to instill into others the lessons of scie

RE: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-10 Thread Dexter Graphic
Thanks for helping me understand how the Debian apt-get program can be used instead of the Helix-Gnome updater utility to install the latest version of Gnome from the HelixCode web site. Here is a summary of what I've learned: 1. Login as root. Note: I assume that Gnome and maybe even X s

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-07 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
>>>>> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:15AM -0700, Dexter Graphic wrote: >> >apt-get install task-helix-gnome? >> >> Does anyone know if the helix-gnome updater will work with >> De

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:10:15AM -0700, Dexter Graphic wrote: > >apt-get install task-helix-gnome? > > Does anyone know if the helix-gnome updater will work with > Debian 2.2? I have the helix-gnome 1.0 CD and a very slow > connection so it would be nice if I could just upda

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread John Gilger
Anselm Almeida wrote: > Hi there, > > Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with > Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are > available at the helix-gnome site, but the only .deb packages available > there are meant fo

RE: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Dexter Graphic
>apt-get install task-helix-gnome? Does anyone know if the helix-gnome updater will work with Debian 2.2? I have the helix-gnome 1.0 CD and a very slow connection so it would be nice if I could just update the parts of gnome that have changed in version 1.2. My concern is that the upda

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Isn't that apt-get install task-helix-gnome? Rino Mardo wrote: > Yes you can and I have it working with potato. Here's part of my > sources.list: > > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main > > You have to install it as "apt-get

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:04:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Isn't that apt-get install task-helix-gnome? > either works. --- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yes, it will work. There is no big difference between the two yet. (potato and woody). Anselm Almeida wrote: > Hi there, > > Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with > Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are > availab

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Rino Mardo
m Almeida wrote: > Hi there, > > Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with > Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are > available at the helix-gnome site, but the only .deb packages available > there are meant for woody. Ar

helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-05 Thread Anselm Almeida
Hi there, Will the helix-gnome .deb packages at the helix site work with Debian 2.2? The Debian site says that helix-gnome .deb packages are available at the helix-gnome site, but the only .deb packages available there are meant for woody. Are they compatible with Debian 2.2

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