Re: [Cooker] Helix-Code Gnome
Hey! The dependency problems are no big deal... Things still work. What's more painful is the bugs relating to the desktop icons and launchers. I found downgrading to the original Mandrake 7.0 gmc fixes lots of problems with helix gnome. In other words, don't use helix code's gmc, use gnome's original... cheers! Patrick Michael Gallagher wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any luck with installing Helix-Code Gnome on Madrake 7.0? I gave it a try, downloading the packages and then installing, but had some problems. A couple dependency problems and that I couldn't correct, libguile.so.4 and libbfd-2.91.0.24.so. When I finished the install and tried Gnome I had a run of problems. Most noticibly that the icons on the desktop were all screwed up. I no longer had harddrive icons, just folder short cuts, as with all the Mandrake icons. Is there anyway to keep the icons? I figure that they're lost when upgrading Gnome, but is there anyway to prevent this? I'm hoping that if I go through and solve the dependencies I'll be all set. I also noticed that I couldn't add any clocks to the panel. If I did, the panel would lock up. Again I'm wondering if the dependencies are causing this. I found the files that I think I needed afterwards when I was reinstalling Gnome from the orginal Mandrake files. I was just curious if anyone else had given it a try. Thanks. ~Mike
Re: [Cooker] Helix-Code Gnome
I installed Helix today, and it's brilliant. This may sway me away from KDE ! But that's not what you want to hear ! Having played with gnome for a couple of years I have been bitten by install scripts before. I just downloaded everything and worked on the assumption that RPM was correct for the 75%ish files it said were older than the mdk versions. The only problem I had was running the gnome panel under Enlightenment, shame 'cos I like E ! but sawmill looks pretty smart too. I also had the dependency problems, I guess Helix will post these as updates sometime. I think this is beta stuff, reading between the lines of publicity. It has a few quirks, but all in all I think it makes major strides in usability. In response to Ivan Kerekes, if the only good thing you found was the fact you got sound working then you weren't looking very far !!! I e-mailed Helix about my two favourite Linux bug bears. They confirmed that they will look into non postscript printers and parallel port scanners - hooray ! Keep going, it's worth the effort. Owen On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any luck with installing Helix-Code Gnome on Madrake 7.0? I gave it a try, downloading the packages and then installing, but had some problems. A couple dependency problems and that I couldn't correct, libguile.so.4 and libbfd-2.91.0.24.so. When I finished the install and tried Gnome I had a run of problems. Most noticibly that the icons on the desktop were all screwed up. I no longer had harddrive icons, just folder short cuts, as with all the Mandrake icons. Is there anyway to keep the icons? I figure that they're lost when upgrading Gnome, but is there anyway to prevent this? I'm hoping that if I go through and solve the dependencies I'll be all set. I also noticed that I couldn't add any clocks to the panel. If I did, the panel would lock up. Again I'm wondering if the dependencies are causing this. I found the files that I think I needed afterwards when I was reinstalling Gnome from the orginal Mandrake files. I was just curious if anyone else had given it a try. Thanks. ~Mike
Re: [Cooker] Helix-Code Gnome
I'm using it...I've also filed several bug reports with Helix for Mandrake 7.0 dependency. I'd blame both teams really. Mandrake who should become a Helix GNOME partner because it will improve the quality of Mandrake's GNOME support. It's also the Helix team's fault because they basically just copied the Redhat RPMs into a Mandrake directory. There's no possible way they could have installed them on a Mandrake system...way too many dependencys and wrong version libraries. You can get things installed but you will have to --force some of the RPMs (many just due to RPM alpha-numeric naming conflicts) and some such as guile will need symbolic links created (eg, Helix GNOME wants libguile.so.4 and Mandrake only provides libguile.so.3 and libguile.so.5). It works fine once they're installed. -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.com
[Cooker] Helix-Code Gnome
Hi, Has anyone had any luck with installing Helix-Code Gnome on Madrake 7.0? I gave it a try, downloading the packages and then installing, but had some problems. A couple dependency problems and that I couldn't correct, libguile.so.4 and libbfd-2.91.0.24.so. When I finished the install and tried Gnome I had a run of problems. Most noticibly that the icons on the desktop were all screwed up. I no longer had harddrive icons, just folder short cuts, as with all the Mandrake icons. Is there anyway to keep the icons? I figure that they're lost when upgrading Gnome, but is there anyway to prevent this? I'm hoping that if I go through and solve the dependencies I'll be all set. I also noticed that I couldn't add any clocks to the panel. If I did, the panel would lock up. Again I'm wondering if the dependencies are causing this. I found the files that I think I needed afterwards when I was reinstalling Gnome from the orginal Mandrake files. I was just curious if anyone else had given it a try. Thanks. ~Mike
