Re: problems with Gnome installation

[Herman Roozenbeek <hermanr mailroom com>]

Call off the dogs... The problem was that -- somehow -- my system expected
Gnome to be in /opt/gnome. This is the default for SuSE, even though I have
not installed Gnome from my distribution.

A symlink from /opt/gnome to /usr/local solved my problems!

Herman

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:26:37 Herman Roozenbeek wrote:
> Who can help me out?
> 
> This is the problem: I installed Gnome on my new computer, using
> basically
> the same versions as on my old one (gnome-libs 1.2.8, gnome-core 1.2.4,
> control-center 1.2.2, etc.).
> 
> Everything works just fine, BUT:
> 
> 1. My Gnome menu doesn't display any of the installed apps, even though
> they're in /usr/local/share/gnome/apps.
> 2. Control center doesn't work, complaining it can't find any capplets,
> even though they're in /usr/local/share/control-center.
> 
> There are a few more strange things, along the same lines, but I suppose
> they all have the same cause.
> 
> When I run gnome-config --prefix, the answer is /usr/local; gnome-config
> --datadir returns /usr/local/share.
> 
> This baffles me, so there must be some stupid thing which I have
> overlooked
> up to now... 
> 
> Any help?