On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 10:50:41AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I've installed potato on a brand new machine. Everything went fine > (congrats, Dan, for the installer !) except that the gnome packages > appear to be broken. > > gnome-panel can't be installed, there's apparently a conflict with gnome- > panel-data requiring gnome-core >= 1.0.55-2 while only 1.0.55-1 is available. probably the silly build daemon decided not to build it, try this: cd /usr/src mkdir gnome-core cd gnome-core apt-get -b source gnome-core either as root or wrap the apt-get command in fakeroot, that should build you a binary .deb for gnome-core 1.0.55-2 which you can install by: dpkg -i gnome-core-blah-blah-blah.deb i do this all the time for various packages the build daemon natoriously neglects to build, i don't think i have ever had a problem with it. once the official debian package is installed in the archive it will be installed over your locally compiled .deb. welcome aboard! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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