On Monday 05 April 2004 05:46, Andrew Archibald wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 15:31, frankieh wrote: > > I have next to no knowledge of making rpms, > > > > but if nobody with more experiance pops up their heads and volenteers.. > > I will give it a shot and make it > > publically available.. > > Interestingly a story about the latest version of XPde has cropped up on > slashdot: > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/03/2322233&mode=thread&; >tid=106&tid=185&tid=189 > > I don't have any experience but from some browsing the installation > instructions are: > " > General installation instructions: > -Decompress the tar.gz in /usr/share as root > -Edit the .xinitrc file of the user you want to run XPde and put this > line: > /usr/share/xpde/bin/startxpde > -Start X > " > http://support.xpde.com/ > > If you're looking to build an rpm, you'd presumably have to write a > script, which does some of the above. I've heard that checkinstall is > very good for capturing the behaviour of the script and putting it all > together, if you work out how to write the script! I'm not quite sure > what you would do for the user specific stuff- maybe do it system wide > in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ? Or leave it to the user to actually enable > it if they want? Perhaps this software needs some adapting to work with > a package based system! > > Good luck! > > A.
Check this page it specific to Mandrake. http://support.xpde.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=32 -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com ----------------------- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.
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