Re: Gnome on Redhat 9

["Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, Rich.
there are three possibilities, and I'll let you decide which method  will
work for you.

1. You could download the complete Gnome 2.6 stable source tree from
ftp.gnome.org, and compile the Gnome packages in the order specified in the
release notes.
One of the major advantages is you get a totally customized and stable copy
of Gnome.
I've started doing it this way, and it is nice for a system wide update, but
is not your only option.
2.   You could download garnome. This makes the  downloading and compiling
somewhat easier, and has advantages such as being able to install gnome
directly to a specific users home directory.
On the down side garnome is for bleeding edge code, and is not always the
most stable. Garnome is mainly for developers and testers wanting a quick
and durty copy of gnome.
3. The last option is to update from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 2 stable when
it is released, or pick another Linux distribution with an up-to-date
version of Gnome.
Personally, I think you would save alot of time, and trouble by upgrading
the entire distribution from RH 9  to some other distribution that has
something current.

Hope this helps.


   ----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>
To: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:29 PM
Subject: Gnome on Redhat 9


> I'm thinking about trying again to get a satisfactory setup running on our
> redhat machine here. I think the problems I was having before might have
> been due to pre-existing gnome and gnome packages installed when the OS
was
> installed. What is the best way to get a fully isolated gnome environment
> which I can be sure is all gnome-2 stuff? I think what I had before was
> mostly gnome-2, but I think there were left-over gnome-1.4 things around.
> All I did before was to use the jhbuild script to pull gnopernicus,
> gnome-speech, and dependencies from CVS. I'm pretty sure that it didn't
pull
> all of gnome down, just what it thought it needed.  Is garnome the best
way
> to get a fully working, consistent gnome-2 environment?
>
> Thanx in advance...
>
> -- Rich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>
> To: "Andrew Meravi NJFB" <ameravi njffb org>
> Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: open office
>
>
> Hi, Andrew.
> Here is a mini tootorial on setting up OpenOffice with gnopernicus.
>
> 1. Download the Linux binary package OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 from:
> http://www.openoffice.org
> (Note, do not use the OpenOffice supplied with your distribution of Linux
as
> most of them lack the accessibility support you will need. That is why you
> will need to get it direct from OpenOffice.org.)
> 2. Download the Sun Java sdk 1.4.2 or later  from:
> http://java.sun.com
> 3. Donload the java access bridge source code from:
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/java-access-bridge/
> 4. Install the Java sdk and put the java bin path on your path.  Also you
> can make a soft link in /usr/bin pointing to all the major required
> executibles such as jar, javac, idlj, etc... which ever method works for
> you.
> 5. Untar the java-access-bridge source, and cd in to that directory.
> 6. Do:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> make install
> 7. Once the java-access-bridge is compiled and installed with no errors
you
> need to copy a few files in to your java runtime.
> copy gnome-java-bridge.jar to /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib/ext
> copy accessibility.properties to /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/lib
> 8. Now, You need to open your .orbitrc file in your primary user account
and
> add the line:
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> 9. Logout and relogin.
>
> Finally, the first half of installation and setup is over, but there is
> still much to be done.
>
> 10. Before installing Openoffice you must decide if you want this to be a
> single user install, or want this to be used by everyone. Personally, for
a
> computer with multiple users install Openoffice as root, and let each user
> do the final home install of settings and other files.
> 11. Run the Openoffice.org setup like:
> sh filename.bin
> where filename is the name of the OpenOffice.org installation file you
> downloaded.
> 12. The setup should load, and gnopernicus at this point should be reading
> the installation.
> 13. Answer the questions, and when asked about jre you should point it to
> the java runtime where the access bridge is installed to.
> 14. After the install has completed you can do one of two things.  You can
> add /opt/OpenOffice.org-1.1.1/bin to your path, or make links to the bin
> files and put the links in /usr/bin.
> 15. Now, from the run dialog in gnome type scalc, or swriter, or one of
the
> OpenOffice.org apps and it should load and talk to you.
>
> I realize that this message was brief, but this covers the main points of
> install. It is kind of complicated for the first couple of times, but take
> notes and some practice and you will get use to getting OpenOffice going.
> Hope this helps.
>
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