Re: Gnome Installation Problem

[Charles Dale <chuckd sydney net>]

> I've been trying to install Gnome on a RedHat 5.2 box. I was using KDE
> before I tried to install Gnome (if that makes any difference). KDE was
> simple to install, but it just wasn't cutting it. So, I thought that I
> would install Gnome because I'd heard great things about it.

> [root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> failed dependencies:
>         libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
>         libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
>         libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by ggv-0.26-3

Just do this:
rpm -e gnome-admin yagirc ggv
then the
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
and you things should be dandy.

These are old Gnome packages that aren't upgrading properly because the
structure of Gnome has changed.

Regards,
Chuck