YDL 4.0 to Gnome 2.8

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

I just got through building garnome-2.8.2. There were a few things that
I needed to fix during the build. I can report in detail if people are
interested.

The good news is evolution-2.0 fixed the the "cannot empty the trash
problem". Evolution-2.0 also added spamassassin and exchange.

The gnome-cd player remain silent  [xmms from www.xms.org works just
fine] so there are still some sound support mysteries to unravel.


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 09:50, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
> Garnome doesn't necessarily replace your installed GNOME.  The config file 
> (gar.conf.mk) has a variable used to set the base directory for the new 
> GNOME (e.g. main_prefix ?= /usr/local/src/gnome2.8 for my build).  You then 
> simply launch into the new session (after setting some PATH and other 
> arguments). I built 2.8 on my YDL4 box without too much trouble (I had it on 
> my 3.0 box as well), and I certainly like 2.8 better. 
> 
> YMMV
> Henry 
> 
> Andrew Zschetzsche writes: 
> 
> > I was looking at that to do it, but then looking at the FAQ page, they were
> > like "Dont Ever use to replace your distro's gnome!!!" 
> > 
> > Has anyone used this on YDL 4 without everything going boom?  Are there
> > anything(s) to look out for or do differently? 
> > 
> > I got into big problems trying to do everything by hand, and now I'm to the
> > last-ditch effort of reinstalling YDL and hopeing that everything else I
> > did is still there. 
> > 
> > 
> > On 14 Dec 2004, Andrew wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 20:20, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
> >> > Does anyone have any advice (other than don't) for somebody who wants
> > to
> >> > upgrade their YDL 4 install to Gnome 2.8? 
> >> 
> >> garnome - http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/
> >> 
> <snip>
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Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>