Is it easy to install Gnome in Slackware? That was one of my other favorite distros and if I can do it on there it would be great. Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Wow, it sounds like you fell into a hole and dug in some and now it is > falling in on top of you. <smile> If you don't have too much invested > in this setup, that is, not too much personal data or work of art or > whatever, you may want to wipe and start over. I had to do that a > while back with Slackware because I tried re-installing X after having > part of Dropline Gnome installed and nothing worked right after that > so I just blew it all away and started over with a brand new install > of Slackware 12.0 at that time and then installed the gnome stuff and > I've been OK since. I like Debian's dependancy tracking and all, but > I wonder if it goes too far some times. > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Wow, this is messy. I attempted to aptitude remove at-spi and it offered >> to fix some dependency issues by removing gnome-accessibility, gnome-orca, >> and Dasher along with some other accessibility stuff. I tried to find a >> way to prevent it from doing this but could not so ended up letting it >> remove it all. Then when I tried to compile atk from source, it complained >> that some stuff was missing like gettext and gtk-doc. I couldn't find them >> as Debian packages so I installed them from source. (I think part of this >> is that there isn't a section on the Orca web site describing how to set up >> the build environment on Debian!) so I went back there and followed the >> instructions for Ubuntu, thinking they would be close enough. I did >> apt-get build-dep gnome-orca and somewhere along the line some package >> called gnome-mag failed and insists on failing. So I attempted to >> reinstall it but it still insists on failing. Thinking that it may be a >> bug with the repository (I am using unstable) I did a aptitude update and >> dist-upgrade. This brought up even another mess! Remember how earlier I >> switched to lilo? Apparently, there is a new kernel available and it thinks >> I still have grub, so it tried to update my boot stuff by running a script >> called grub-update! LOL it's all a mess. Ease of use? >> >> I love playing with other distros and have found Debian to be the easiest >> as far as getting the desktop environment to work but still declare LFS to >> be my favorite. >> >> Thanks all, >> Robby >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFImLl3WSjv55S0LfERA05aAJ9c8LROyTLtr+ltmYAKKWuEWzxOrQCfYh6L > heqWiRs9wrnkDFJokEBRzBY= > =rFQE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
