This is also something I had great problems with... I didn't install gnome at install time because I suspect these packages is what gave me the errors trying to mount the second install CD.
I manually tried to install evolution, adding all the dependencies, and it turns out that a lot of the packages aren't in the ISO's. Nick On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 08:50, John C. Tull wrote: > Is Gnome absolutely dead in 8.2 b1? I cannot successfully bring up a > gnome session from xdm login. Instead, my X-session seemingly restarts > itself (gray screen, black X after a moment of screen darkness, then xdm > again). KDE works fine. > > Similarly, gnumeric and some other gnome-based apps will not run from > within KDE. I checked my installed libs from the package manager > (Mandrake manager). Some of the gnome libs and ?.pixbuf.? were not > installed. On trying to install those from the CD's, the Mandrake > installer basically freezes the system while spinning the cd-rom almost > constantly. I had to hard reset because I could not bring up a virtual > terminal. > > Cheers, > John > > -- Nick Texidor Technical Director Webbods Pty Ltd eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.webbods.com.au tel: 0414 810284 aol: texinick icq: 3900008