To ensure that I always have a working platform while I try out an upgrade, I install each new system to a prefix numbered for that version - /usr/gnome2.10, /usr/X11R6, etc. Then I can install the upgrade to /usr/gnome2.14, /usr/X11R7.1, whatever and not lose the working files while I experiment with the new toys. I can switch back and forth simply by relinking /usr/gnome to /usr/gnome2.10 or /usr/gnome2.14 as needed. I'm sure most of y'all do the same thing.
Anyway, I was installing the latest gnome stuff this weekend and I kept building, installing, realizing I forgot to include some configura options, uninstalling, and rebuilding... and at some point I realized I had forgotten to relink /usr/gnome from 2.10 to 2.14. The result was I had mistakenly uninstalled half a dozen gnome 2.10 libraries from what was supposed to be my "safe" working copy of gnome. I managed to dig up the older source files and rebuild what was missing, but now for some reason some - but not all - icons are missing from Evolution 2.4.0. Specifically anything related to an attachment just shows as a little gray rectangle with a red "X" in the middle of it. Also the folder icon itself that should appear next to the name of each folder appears as that same gray rectangle. Since I don't know the name of the icon I don't know what file(s) to look for and therefore which package is still incomplete. I'm afraid to rebuild the whole thing from scratch because if I do anything the slightest bit differently, I could further ruin the functionality I do have. I guess I could back up the whole /usr/gnome2.10 tree, but it would be so much easier if somebody here could do my thinking for me and happens to know what package can provide those missing icons without rebuilding the whole universe. pbs, belatedly realizing I forgot to make a tarball of the whole gnome2.10 tree once I got it working in February -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
