Re: Fw: gnome for slackware Linux

["Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr ptdprolog net>]

On 21 Mar, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:56:47PM +0100 or thereabouts, Frederic Bellaiche wrote:
>> Tommy_T wrote:
>> > 
>> > I'm interested in loading GNOME, but I don't see any listing for the
>> > Slackware
>> > version of Linux. Is it available?
>>
>> Slackware 7.0 (glibc based) comes with October Gnome.
>> I guess you can get tarballs from Slackware's 
>> web site.
>> Slackware 4.0 (libc5 based) comes with an earlier version
>> of Gnome.
> 
> Slackware 7.1 has Gnome 1.2 on it. 
> 
> Slackware users show up regularly on here and IRC, and report varying
> degrees of success with installing extremely up to date versions. It
> seems to vary with how far they have taken the "put things precisely
> where you want" thing and whether they have such things as docbook
> tools, the Gnome variants of those, and other things installed first. 

FWIW, I reinstalled all of GNOME up to gmc/Nautilus this weekend by
compiling sources. (I'm running a Slack 7.1 based system.) To keep
things simple, I put everything in /usr, since that's where Patrick puts
the GNOME packages. All the newer tarballs were freshly FTP'd Saturday
morning (a few hadn't changed, but were recompiled anyway from my
archived sources).

Here's my compile sequence:
        Installed prerequisite libraries: (--prefix=/usr)
                audiofile-0.2.1
                esound-0.2.22
                glib-1.2.10
                gtk+-1.2.9
                imlib-1.9.9
                gdk-pixbuf-0.10.1
                gtk-engines-0.12
                ORBit-0.5.7
                popt-1.6-4 (from RedHat RPM, prerequisite for OAF etc.)
        Installed GNOME base libraries: (--prefix=/usr)
                gnomelibs-1.2.13
                libgtop-1.0.12
                libxml-1.8.11
                libghttp-1.0.9
                glibwww-0.2 (pre-requisite for gtkhtml)
        Installed Bonobo & its prerequisites: (--prefix=/usr)
                gal-0.5
                libunicode-0.4.gnome
                oaf-0.6.5
                GConf-1.0.0
                gnome-vfs-1.0
                gnome-print-0.27
                bonobo-0.37
        Installed gnome-db (prerequisite for libglade) (--prefix=/usr)
                libdgda-0.2.3
                gnome-db-0.2.3 (--disable-bonobotest) [bonobo test failed, but
                   gnome-db is looking for >=0.29 and there have been multiple
                   API changes since 0.29]
        Installed GNOME base libraries w/ Bonobo dependencies: (--prefix=/usr)
                libglade-0.16
                gtkhtml-0.8.3
        Installed GNOME core: (--prefix=/usr)
                control-center-1.4.0
                gnome-core-1.4.0
                gnome-applets-1.4.0
        Installed nautilus prerequisites: (--prefix=/usr)
                [openssl-0.9.6 (ammonite prerequisite) already installed]
                ammonite-1.0.0
                medusa-0.5.0
                mozilla-0.8 (binary built on Slackware)
                scrollkeeper-0.1.4 (--localstatedir=/var)

At this point, I postponed Nautilus and worked on some other items.                
        Installed pan-0.9.5 (--prefix=/usr) [now that gnome core is complete]

FWIW, I generally used the command:

nice ./configure --prefix=/usr && nice make && sudo ~/s/checkinstall

My copy of checkinstall is heavily modified from the version generally
available, but basically it does a 'make install', copying some standard
doc files ala Patrick's practice, and creates a Slackware package
(mostly so that I can scan for files in /var/adm/packages).

In short, it's *very* doable. There are a few packages that can safely
be compiled 'side by side', but most should be done singly in the order
listed.

HTH

> If you have a pretty default install, you can even trick the ximian 
> installer into thinking it's running on RH and installing all the 
> latest stuff.

Now *THERE'S* a scary thought! ;-)

Barthel
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