On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:02, Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS wrote: > Not to mention that the last tinme I sat here with Richard Stallman > with an 'apt-geted' version of GNOME, it was completely broken. > > I had to spend 2 hours to get it to function in the most basic ways > (like logging off). What distro were you using. If it was debian, were you mixing stable and unstable packages? That can be complicated if so. If you use redhat 9 or mandrake 9.2, Gnome just works fine as it ships with the distro. At the risk of offending, if you couldn't get GNOME working with binary packages, I don't see how you would have much better luck building it all from source yourself, although if you are interested (and it is worthwhile), you can download a little program called garnome that will automatically fetch the latest source code (from CVS) and build a whole gnome system (that can, through the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, coexist with any distro's existing gnome install) from scratch with no intervention, if you're hell-bent on riding the cutting edge. On my redhat box, this has always worked: apt-get update apt-get install gtk2-devel Simple and painless. If I add beta sources to my apt configuration, then I can even apt-get install gtk2 2.4.0. > > Ruben > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:32:27PM +0930, David Lloyd wrote: > > > > Tara, > > > > > If I may add, it's also difficult to install GTK (not just a > > > new one). I think the developers are doing a great job, and > > > there is room for improvement. > > > > apt-get install libgtk2 > > > > rpm -ivh libgtk* > > (or whatever Redhat/Mandrake call them) > > > > emerge blah blah > > > > cd /usr/ports/[whereever] && make install > > > > ..don't sound too difficult to me. > > > > > > DSL > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- Michael Torrie <torriem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
