Re: gnome installation guide

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

Dear Karsten:

I'll look at this guide and commanet on details later today. Yes, an
installation guide is needed and we may ineeed include it as part of
GNOME documentation project and/or put on the web page. However, I'd
like to point out that by far the easiest way to update your GNOME
installation or get more applications is by just running
"helix-update" (as root), which will automatically fetch all the
binaries for your system.

Best,
Sasha

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:07:55AM +0100, karsten reincke wrote:
> hello to all of you;
> 
> I can offer a new GNOME Installation Guide to the community of GNOME users
> and those who want to become GNOME user: it's a description of how to
> install a stable pure GNOME system from scratch, how to enrich such system
> by associated GNOME applications and how to find the adequate GNOME
> application for a problem/wish. You can find that guide under
> 
> http://www.karubik.de/gig
> 
> details:
> ========
> 
> Discussing with my friends how to participate in the best and latest GNOME
> applications we met those problems which you'll ever meet if you seriously
> want to participate in GNOME without being GNOME developer:
> 
> (1) Distributions with prebuilt binaries normally don't offer the best
> version of GNOME.
> 
> (2) Distributions with prebuilt binaries normally don't offer a bride set
> of associated GNOME applications (= applications which are developed with
> and for GNOME but which (still?) are not part of the official gnome
> applications server ftp.gnome.org)
> 
> (3) There seems to be no guide how to install the libraries and
> applications of the pure GNOME system, a guide, which is able to
> answer such questions like this: <in which order must you install
> which of the offered parts?>
> 
> (4) Not all applications of the applications offered under
> ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources should or must be installed
> for getting a stable GNOMRE system. there were offered some obsolete
> parts.
> 
> (5) The offered list of additional GNOME applications (-> get more
> software of the GNOME homepage) contains old and obsolete applications and
> doesn't contain many of the also reachable applications.
> 
> Having the wish to found a site where we can ...
> 
> (a) ... find an explanation how to install the latest valid state of a
> stable GNOME system
> 
> (b) ... find an explanation how to enrich my GNOME system by other GNOME
> applications
> 
> (c) ... select an adequate applications
> 
> ... I've decided to create such side by myself.
> 
> >From now on the side http://www.karubik.de/gig offers these possibilities
> and will be updated weekly. The installation of mostly all applications
> will practically be tested and reported. Therefore you can regard my
> system as a reference implementation too.
> 
> IMHO this (at least until now) private project seems to be very closely related to the GNOME documentation project. Therefore it should become part of the GDP if that is your opinion too. Independet from this aspect I would be glad to recieve your comments and those of the other GNOME users.
> 
> salut bis denne
> 
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