Re: gnome broken in potato
On Tue, May 30, 2000, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>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.
Well, it failed after triggering another bunch of dependency problems
with gdk and other stuffs. No time to handle that now, I'll install one
of the redhat-based distros and try again later.
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