Hi,
I've tried the RPMs for SuSE 6.0 made available at the GNOME site. They
worked OK, but the guy who created them took his site down, and is no
longer accessible and there is no info if he will update them. In any
case, I would not recommend those RPMs, since they replace other SuSE
packages under different package names and have incomplete development
packages.
Next, I tried to compile the latest version from the GNOME site. Of
course I didn't install them in the system's directories, but rather in
a separate directory in /opt. I had but one problem compiling Guile, the
rest compiled fine. I'm running that now, and had very little problems.
I have also tried the SuSE RPMs in a separate installation. These
packages have a mix of old and new versions of the libraries and
packages mentioned in the GNOME site. The following are outdated:
Current SuSE RPM
0.2.8 esound-0.2.7-11.i386.rpm Esound
0.4 fnlib-0.2-49.i386.rpm fnlib
0.5 gtkeng-0.4-11.i386.rpm Gtk-engine - themes
1.0.2 gnadmin-1.0.1-8.i386.rpm GNOME admin tools
1.0.2 gnobjc-1.0.1-9.i386.rpm GNOME objective C
0.15.5 enlight-0.14-11.i386.rpm Enlightment, a window manager
1.0.2 gtop-1.0.1-10.i386.rpm Gtop, a viewer for system
resources
0.52.0 wmaker-0.51.1-8.i386.rpm WindowMaker, a window manager
These seem to be missing:
gnome-python-1.0.1.tar.gz
gnome-core-1.0.5.tar.gz
enlightenment-conf-0.15.tar.gz
gnome-pim-1.0.7.tar.gz
The first two being 'required' by the GNOME site instructions.
I'm sure there must ba a reason why those versions were released at the
SuSE site and I congratulate SuSE for trying to keeping us with
up-to-date software. But after I installed the packages and running X
windows I couldn't find the control panel, you know, the bar with the
foot on it. Did I miss installing one of the packages? I believe that
program is called 'panel' and I couldn't find it after the installation.
The Enlightenment WM has no mouse menus and I have to start the gnome
utilities from a shell prompt. The lack of this control panel has me
bummed. How about some installation documentation? One gets the best
from gnome from it's interactions with the WM, how about updating the
Enlightenment and WindowMaker WMs?
Thank you for the effort.
--
Rafael Herrera
Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo
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