Re: ximian installer grayed out, RH7, Gnome 1.2.1

["John P. Verel" <jverel home com>]

On 04/24/01, 09:16:08PM -0400, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> If you have all of the packages, just doing rpm -Uvh *.rpm should work... 
> I suspect the installer does some additional thinking about what
> packages you should have, but...
> 
...which is what I did going to 1.2.  The installer failed then, too.  I
was wanting to try the installer to see what added benefit it might
bring.  Appears that won't work.
 
> On 24 Apr 2001 23:43:58 -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> > Hi.  Trying to run the ximian installer, RH 7.0, running Gnome 1.2.1
> > I've got all the rpms, I've got the packageinfo.xml (unzipped), I've got the
> > installer (unzipped).  All these live in the same directory.
> > Nonetheless, the installer button stays grayed out when I select the
> > directory containing all the above.  (Also read the FAQ, FWIW).  I even
> > tried having a copy of packageinfo.xml renamed to packages.xml.  All to
> > no avail.  Not working.  What else should I try?
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John P. Verel
Norwalk, CT