grendal Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 How do I install gnome 2.6? First I assume that I need to be in KDE or any other Desktop, and then delete my current version of gnome. Thats about as far as I know. Should I use the remove software program to remove gnome or is their a better way? Also is it possible to completly download all of 2.6, then install? I thought there was another thread on installing gnome but did not find it, so sorry if this is another post on this, please direct me to the other thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duardito Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 no, you can install gnome without any desktop, only must have installed xfree or Xorg, download it and install it, that's all. http://www.dropline.net/gnome/download.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Gnome 2.6 is the default version of Gnome that's on the 10.0OE cd's. It's been that way since the CE release. In any case, you should be able to install it from your cd's by opening a console and su'ing to root, or by being root in the command line and typing: urpmi gnome-session That should give you Gnome 2.6 along with all of its dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjel Oslund Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 MDK 10.0 OE has only Gnome 2.4. AFIK Gnome 2.6 is only available in 10.1 (cooker). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted June 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Ok, so I still have no Gnome 2.6. Oe only has 2.4 and dropline is based off of slackware 9.0 so I'm not sure its compatible. If it is let me know and I will get that as it seems straight forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Another alternative is to add a cooker 'main' source to urpmi and get it that way. Current cooker version of Gnome is 2.6.2 (unless it changed again today :P ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted July 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2004 Ok I finally got Gnome 2.6 from : http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa.../GNOME2.6/RPMS/ and installed it. Now However I'm getting two error when Gnome starts: 1.Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: Mandrake Linux (XFree86 4.3, patch level 30mdk) 40300001 If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb 2. Failed to load image evolution.png Details: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/icons/Lush/scalable/apps/evolution.svg' Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) is what this stands for, but how do I fix this? Do I need to install xorg for 2.6? IS that why I get the first error? I found xorg rpms @ http://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/svetlj...rake/10.0/RPMS/ or am I just missing something that I forgot to install ? Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 ha!, i also tried the uni-rostock rpm's for gnome 2.6. the result of my update (on mkd10) was somehow more quirky. gnome started to boot half way, then the splash-screen froze and all went dead. i had to reboot my machine, then gui got killed and needed to be fixed with XFdrake. but still, no way to log in into 2.6. this is weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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