[OLUG] Help! I'm trapped in kde!

[Adam Lassek]

Ohhh, I know what's wrong. I was a doofus and forgot that I'm installing off of a lightweight
"evaluation version" that came with Trevor's nVidia card. My bad ;)
Guess I should just get myself a real copy. Anyone here willing to make me a copy of the set
(6.3)? I can give you the equivalent cd-r's for compensation.

Mike Hostetler wrote:

> I know for a fact that it is there because I used it for a while on my SuSE 6.3 machine.
>
> What you want to install out of there is the package called
> "gncore    GNOME Base package".  Install that, and auto-select all of it's dependent packages
> (gotta love YaST) and go for it.  And no, there is more in that option then just the GNOME
> libraries.  If you look, besides having the GNOME Base, it has a bunch of GNOME apps.
>
> just trust me. ;-)
>
> - mikeh
>
> (Core)"
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:28:39PM -0800, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > Yeah, that's the first thing I tried. Unfortunately, the only thing in that directory is the
> > Gnome libs, not a complete version of Gnome. Makes sense, it's good to keep it compatible--but
> > that's certainly not enough to me any good. I have 6.3; did an earlier version have a complete
> > Gnome implementation?
> >
> > Mike Hostetler wrote:
> >
> > > You aren't trapped - SuSE has Gnome, you just have to look for it (though you don't have to
> > > look hard).
> > >
> > > Fire up YaST, goto Choose/Install Packages, Change/Create Configuration, and choose the
> > > option that says (*gasp*) "gnm - GNOME - GNU Network Object Model Environment".
> > >
> > > - mikeh
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 06:50:02PM -0800, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > > > I just recently switched over to SuSE as my dist, and I can't help but
> > > > notice the total lack of Gnome.
> > > > I looked at a few download sites for it, but all I find is hundreds of
> > > > rpms... is that the only way to install it? individually? If so, is there a
> > > > list somewhere of the critical files I need, and the errata I don't?
> > > > I don't hate kde, actually... but I want my Gnome ;)
> > > >
> > > >
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