On Tue, November 22, 2005 12:10, Luca Dionisi said: > Hi folks > > Has anyone succeded in installing Gnome using package-users ?
Yes, though I have yet to use it 'in anger', I'm installing additional X packages ATM. > I've just finished the installation of Gnome Core packages by > following the BLFS 6.1 and using the package users hint. > Once I arrived to the chapter of configuration (that is last section > of chapter 30) I gave the command update-desktop-database. > The system replied with a lot of messages. Unfortunately, I didn't > write down the exact message, and it won't reproduce, but they were > all equals and did sound like 'mimetype file not found'. > Then, launching gnome-session, all the icons in nautilus windows > (and in the desktop) are the same default sheet. :( I'm not sure what you mean here, could you explain: 1) Exactly what you are seeing (default sheet?) 2) Exactly what you would expect to see > Now, if I try again with update-desktop-database nothing happens, no > messages are written and the icons are still the same ones. > I checked always the log of the installations to see if any file was > required as setuid root, and found none. Use the '--verbose' option and you'll see what is happening. I get the same thing, also on my Debian Gnome 2.8 installation at work. 'lacks MimeType key' yes? So I don't think this is a problem as such. [...] -- Tony -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
