Well I did as you suggested. Magic carpet worked perfectly except for one little caveat. The icon on the K Taskbar has disappeared. Do you know how to get this link back? On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 22:17, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:21, John wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2002, Brian K. Jones wrote: > > > > > I don't get it. What's so hard about installing red-carpet and getting > > > it from there, like the ximian site says to do if you're running RH8? > > > It's really not that hard, and it works well. I'm writing this in 1.2 > > > now, which I've had since almost immediately after the release (oh yeah, > > > I'm running RH8) > > > > > > Did I miss something? Is there something wrong with the ximian rpmz? > > > /brian > > > > Upgrading to RHL 8.1 will be tricky. > > >From what I read, Brian has simply installed a utility from the Ximian > offerings, called Red Carpet. He has not installed their entire > desktop, which is what causes upgrade problems because it installs at > least 20 packages (rpm --force). > > ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet/redhat-80-i386/red-carpet-1.4.0-2.ximian.2.i386.rpm > > That file, that is Red Carpet. It has ZERO dependencies. It does not > conflict with any existing RH8.0 packages. It will not interfere with > upgrades to the future version of RH, (if any exists, with no > speculation as to the version number, if it even has one). > > That is what Brian has recommended. Install Red Carpet, and use it to > do whatever it was this thread started about. Oh ya, Evolution 1.2. > > I'm using the beta, and it works great. I think maybe I'll install 1.2 > > -Ryan > > PS - Stereotypical mumbojumbo about upgrading to a version of RH that > may never exist wasn't called for. Do your research first. > > -- > Powered by Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- lovswr1 <lovswr1@earthlink.net> -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
