Re: GNOME (slink) not working
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500, Chris Frost wrote:
> I just apt installed gnome (the actual packages told apt to grab are
> below), and apt didn't give a hint anything went wrong. However, when I
> try to open a gnome app (ie eeyes, gnomeicu, xchat, gnome-session, panel,
> etc) nothing happens. There is a bit of cpu usage/disk usage real quickly
> and then the box just sits there. Any ideas what might be causing this?
> (Btw, running i386 slink...)
>
> Here is what I told apt to grab and install (it installed more of course,
> but this might help): task-gnome-apps task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-net
> wmaker-gnome gmc gnumeric gnomeicu gtk-engines-gtkstep gtk-engines-metal and
> gtop. (I specifed specific apps because I wasn't sure if they were in the
> task packages, so I went ahead and specified them.) If it would help to
> see a log of the entire apt session I can post that too (I ran the install
> under script).
Is this the gnome on gnomeftp.wgn.net or some similar mirror? Or is it the
gnome that was distributed with the cheapbytes slink cd's?
When you run something like gmc from the commandline, do you get any error
messages (like cannot load libraries) or does it just start and quit?
-Dano
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