Re: Yet another newbie - End of story

[bob kehs ksd org]

This is why I am pushing rpms so much.

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Steen Rabol wrote:

> Hello
> 
> First I would like to say thanks to all who tried to help me. I've got very
> good and constructive answers, but due to my lake of expirence I finally gave
> up on GNOME.
> 
> I followed the read me/install file, and did a ./configure, make and make install
> After compiling glib, gtk+ and imlib, my next package was gtk-engines, and
> during ./configure it told me that it needed gtk+ 1.1.13 or higher, then I gave
> up.
> 
> I've spend the last two days trying to install GNOME, first by getting the RPM's
> then I located a mirror containg the /pub/sources/latest - why keep sources in
> different directories when they are the "latest" ?
> 
> One re-install of Red Hat 5.2 just to be sure that I had a clean system, to
> compile one.
> 
> My personal conclusion is that GNOME is not for novice users.
> 
> Keep up the good work, maybe I'll try later but for now I'll stick to KDE
> It took me less than 1 hour of re-install Red Hat and KDE and I was up and
> running again.
> 
> I've saved all the answers I've gotten, maybe someone could use them later.
> 
> My next mail will be a UN SUBSCRIBE to gnome-list.
> 
> Thanks once again to all who tried to help me.
> 
> Best
> Steen
> 
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