Re: ximian installer grayed out, RH7, Gnome 1.2.1

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

Tried.  No luck.  
On 04/25/01, 07:22:42AM -0700, Matt Nelson wrote:
> i had the same problem.  this is how i fixed it:
> 
> you need to duplicate the directory structure from the ximian site.  in
> other words, put the files you have already downloaded into a subdirectory
> called redhat-70-i386/ and download the additional file install.xml.
> for reference, the ximian ftp site looks like:
> 
> ncftp /pub/ximian-gnome > dir
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        28672   Apr 25 04:45   debian-potato-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        28672   Apr 25 04:45   debian-woody-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    2 1002     100            6   Apr 24 05:10   installers
> -rw-r--r--    1 1002     100         2550   Apr 24 23:56   install.xml
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        20480   Apr 25 04:46   linuxppc-2000-ppc
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        20480   Apr 25 04:46   mandrake-70-i586
> -rw-r--r--    1 1002     100          566   Apr 25 05:06   README.mirror
> drwxr-xr-x    2 1002     100        20480   Apr 24 04:20   redhat-62-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    2 1002     100        20480   Apr 24 04:20   redhat-70-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    2 1002     100        20480   Apr 24 04:24   redhat-71-i386
> drwxr-xr-x   11 1002     100         4096   Apr 25 04:49   sources
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        20480   Apr 25 04:49   suse-63-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    2 1002     100        20480   Apr 24 08:14   suse-64-i386
> drwxr-xr-x    3 1002     100        20480   Apr 25 04:51   turbolinux-60-i386
> ncftp /pub/ximian-gnome > 
> 
> good luck...
> 
> -matt
> 
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> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, 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?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > -- 
> > John P. Verel
> > Norwalk, CT
> > 
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John P. Verel
Norwalk, CT