Dan Fairs wrote:
The reason I didn't want to do that was that Ximian ships half a distro
with its desktop! It has customised versions of OpenOffice, and other
such programs. I want to set this up in a 'sandbox' so that it can't
mess with the rest of my system. In an ideal world I'd have a whole
oth
Hi,
> Source isn't available for this desktop..?
>
> Is this no help..?
>
> Stroller.
The reason I didn't want to do that was that Ximian ships half a distro
with its desktop! It has customised versions of OpenOffice, and other
such programs. I want to set this up in a 'sandbox' so that it
On Monday 09 June 2003 19:46, Dan Fairs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a
> supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm) I'm looking
> for a way to install a supported distro without repartitioning.
>
> I was thinking of doing someth
On 9/6/03 7:46 pm, "Dan Fairs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a
> supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm)...
Source isn't available for this desktop..?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ emerge -s rpm
Searching...
[
Why don't you first try the rpm2targz tool? You might be able to have it
installed in gentoo :-) Of course if everything go well we might be able
to cook an ebuild or something for the others who want to try it.
On 09 Jun 2003 19:46:37 +0100
Dan Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd lik
>
> vmware?
Good grief, I'd completely forgotten about that! I'll give it a go...
Cheers,
Dan
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>-Original Message-
>From: Dan Fairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Subject: [gentoo-user] XD2
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>
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a
>supported distro (due to its mercifu
Hello!
On 19:46 Mon 09 Jun, Dan Fairs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to play with the new Ximian Desktop. Since Gentoo isn't a
> supported distro (due to its merciful choice not to use rpm) I'm looking
> for a way to install a supported distro without repartitioning.
>
> I was thinking of doing somet