Against my normal better judgement and in complete contradiction to my ealier mail, I liked the look of those RPMs and had a spare hour on this snowy Friday afternoon so just went for it.
I can happily report that E16.999 was a doddle to get going under Mandrake 10.1 Now this was obviously already known since Didier's site has some notes on Madrake 10.1 on the front page, but just for the benefit of anyone else here is what I did since there were a couple of gotcha's. (DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT DON'T DO IT SINCE IT DOES INVOLVE --FORCE!) Firstly I uninstalled my E16 setup because I was getting rpm conflicts. 1. I did exactly as per Didier's site in the section "Attention Mandrake Users" (installing and sorting some locations of a few crypto libs) 2. I downloaded the contents of the FC2 rpm dir since I don't have apt or yum installed and I believe that path may not work under mdk anyway because of the following points. 3. Went to the dir I saved them to and just did an rpm -Uvh * and then noted what it was saying it was missing. 4. Installed all dependencies until I got it down to "freetype2" and "xine-lib" and one other xine related one. 5. Freetype2. Mdk calls this libfreetype6 and libfreetype6-devel apparently so checked these were installed and continued. 6. With the xine rpms, similar issue. They were called lib-xine rather than xine-lib. Something like that. Checked they were installed and continued. 7. "rpm -Uvh --force *" since I now knew everything it thought it was missing was in fact really there. Bingo. E doesn't show up in gdm yet. I'm looking at that, but for now I have "DESKTOP=enlightenment" in ~/.desktop and in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and that seems to do the job. Nice work Didier. I know maybe source build would get me the latest and greatest code and maybe guarantee my build a bit better, but in the space of about 30 minutes I'm now finding my way round a new environment that looks just stunning. Now all I need to do is just that. Find my way around :) Cheers, Martin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier Casse Sent: 25 February 2005 17:54 To: Richard Torkar; enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Ron Lau Subject: Re: [e-users] Raster's paper. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:06:44 +0100, Richard Torkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:56 -0600, Ron Lau wrote: > > (must figure out how to compile e17 on suse9.2) > > > > Thanks for the link, but getting e17 to compile and run is a little > > out of my league. > > > > I'm waiting for the rpms. > > There are already rpms out (from CVS). > http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/ Dunno how they work on SuSE... > Somebody told me that it worked on SuSE too. You might install one or two packages and see whether it's ok. -- With kind regards, Didier. --- Didier F.B Casse | PhD candidate | Singapore Synchrotron light Source (SSLS) Email: didier.casse AT_Remove_THE_N00SPAM gmail DOT com | Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
