Building garnome-2.8.2

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

GARNOME Frequently Asked Questions
1. General Information
1.1 Can I install GARNOME without breaking my current GNOME setup?
Sure, that's part of what GARNOME is for! By default, it will install to
~/garnome/ and not effect any of your existing GNOME packages. It may
affect your configuration files though, so you ought to back them up or
use a totally different user to run GARNOME. (Paul Drain)


1.2 Can I install GARNOME over the top of my existing GNOME setup?
You could, but you shouldn't! (and we won't support you if you do)

GARNOME isn't a package based setup, it installs from GNOME tarballs
with patches. If you install GARNOME into /usr (for example), you will
overwrite your system setup with the software we provide.

All of your configuration will be overwritten, all of your settings
could vanish, all of the development libraries will be installed and you
will destroy any knowledge your packaging software (RPM, dpkg, etc) has
about your setup.

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A user can certainly get themselves in trouble if they do not need these
warnings.

Kindly note that I had suggested:

(1) Installation of GARNOME under /opt
(2) Running GARNOME from a new user account.

Follow these two suggestions and your YDL based accounts will remain
"pristine".


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:59, Derick Centeno wrote:
> I've been off this list awhile so I didn't quite catch what preceded
> this but I did go to the garnome website and reviewed their FAQ page.
> I recommend that one consider carefully what they clearly state in 1.1
> and 1.2.  The developers point out that Garnome is NOT "a package based
> setup" which means that the software provided by TerraSoft Solutions CAN
> be overwritten AND that users will be left to fend for themselves to
> rebuild the desktop and ALL the other programs which TerraSoft Solutions
> built into YDL 4.0 specifically for Mac and other PPC hardware.  The
> developers of Garnome also point out that "configuration files may be
> affected".
> 
> Although there are a few undaunted and highly skilled group of souls to
> whom this prospect won't matter there are many, many more who use this
> list who marvel that they can use Linux on a PPC at all.  In short, many
> more will be railing obscenities at the heavens regarding what happened
> to their installation and look for whose head they can skewer on a pike.
> A nice little tradition of civilized Europe during the Middle Ages for
> those who have forgotten.
> 
> Considering that even yum won't work under the conditions warned about,
> "All of your configuration will be overwritten, all of your settings
> could vanish, all of the development libraries will be installed and you
> will destroy any knowledge your packaging software (RPM, dpkg, etc) has
> about your setup.", I really, really have to question why suggest a user
> undergo this process at all.
> 
> I won't go so far to suggest that one "love" the YDL desktop and
> associated packages, but building on top of it, i.e. adding to it via
> yum is less difficult than starting completely cold WITHOUT yum's help,
> and having to figure out for oneself which software dependencies and
> related software are required for the PPC hardware configuration one
> actually uses.

-- 
Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. <joseph_sacco at comcast.net>