Re: Mixing tarballs and RPMs

[jlh geodesic com]

Thanks.  I probably shouldn't call it a bug, but when a
simple change, like compiling the latest advertised gnome-libs
with default parameters, can completely destroy the desktop
environment it should be called something more than
"expected behavior".

I followed your advice and _almost_ got a working gnome back.
At least the task bar looks reasonable, and I can launch gnome-terminal
and netscape from their correct icons.  But the gnome menu never
fully recovered, and I can't set parameters in the "desktop settings"
menu at all.

I also tried to just reinstall from the RH 6.0 cdrom all of the
gnome and control files, but that doesn't help either.  I'm now
going to completely reinstall RH 6.0, and that's a big problem.
It should not be that hard to save/restore state, but at least
next time I know that I'll either have to set up a complete
gnome-tarball installation, or just install from official RPMs.

Thanks for your help,

John


Tom Gilbert wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 jlh@geodesic.com wrote:
>
> ->There is a very serious bug when people try to switch
> ->from the RedHat 6.0 rpm gnome to any gnome library
> ->that one compiles from tarballs.   The gnome panel, the
> ->incons, the menu and the applications get horribly messed
> ->up.
> -

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>
> ->
> ->John
>
> To fix the problem, go to your gnome-libs and gnome-core source
> directories and do a make uninstall.
> Then, to install the tarball, and for all future gnome-tarballs, you must
> do the following,
>
> Run configure, make etc as folows.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
> make
> make prefix=/usr sysconfdir=/etc install
>
> This will keep the new tarballed software in tune with the existing rpm'd
> software. There are other options, such as sysstatedir (or something like
> that) - check the MakeFile before you start. Sometimes make --help will
> list possible options.
>
> You should always run autoconf in this manner, then you will avoid
> problems.

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