Jeff Waugh (jdub perkypants org) wrote:
> <quote who="sams marketing-designs com">
>
> > Can someone please please update the FAQ to include this issue, that way
> > we only get 4 emails a week about it? I am more than willing to draw up
> > an html patch if need be.
>
> Yes please. Patches first, ask questions later. :-)
Fair enough, attached. Also closes Bug 117500 when applied. Anything
else? Ask and ye shall receive.
>
> - Jeff
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<body>
-<h1><center><img src="garnome_old.html.content/garnome.jpg" width="500" height="150" hspace="5" vspace="5" alt="¡GARNOME!"></center></h1>
+<h1><center><img src="garnome.html.content/garnome.jpg" width="500" height="150" hspace="5" vspace="5" alt="¡GARNOME!"></center></h1>
<p>GARNOME - the bad-ass, bleeding edge GNOME distribution for testers and
tweakers everywhere - is finally released unto the teeming masses. If
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
<blockquote>libpng3-dev<br>
libjpeg-dev<br>
libtiff-dev<br>
+ libncurses5-dev<br>
xlibs-dev<br>
xutils (for xmkmf, required by Xrender)<br>
libpopt-dev<br>
@@ -68,6 +69,20 @@
texinfo (librep)<br>
</blockquote>
+<a name="configure"><h2>How do I configure GARNOME?</h2></a>
+
+ <p>All the local settings are kept in gar.conf.mk. Here are the
+ most useful ones:</p>
+
+ <p><b>GARCHIVEDIR</b>: If you've downloaded the tarball collection
+already, point this to the directory your tarballs are in. Example:</p>
+
+ <blockquote><tt>GARCHIVEDIR =
+ /home/jdub/src/cvs/gnome/garnome/DOWNLOAD</tt></blockquote>
+
+ <p><b>main_prefix</b>: Currently the default install location is $HOME/garnome.
+ If you'd prefer to install GARNOME elsewhere, change this entry.</p>
+
<h2>How do I use GARNOME?</h2>
@@ -86,21 +101,6 @@
meta/gnome-desktop garball!</p>
-<a name="configure"><h2>How do I configure GARNOME?</h2></a>
-
- <p>All the local settings are kept in gar.conf.mk. Here are the
- most useful ones:</p>
-
- <p><b>GARCHIVEDIR</b>: If you've downloaded the tarball collection already,
- point this to the directory your tarballs are in. Example:</p>
-
- <blockquote><tt>GARCHIVEDIR =
- /home/jdub/src/cvs/gnome/garnome/DOWNLOAD</tt></blockquote>
-
- <p><b>main_prefix</b>: Currently the default install location is $HOME/garnome.
- If you'd prefer to install GARNOME elsewhere, change this entry.</p>
-
-
<a name="start"><h2>How do I start GARNOME once it is installed?</h2></a>
<p>The easiest way is to create a garnome-session script, and use the
@@ -181,7 +181,9 @@
<p>Probably not - are you using a non-English system and GARNOME 0.5.x?
If so, please upgrade to a more recent version, as there is a fix for
- this suggested by Rafael Rigues from Conectiva. Thanks Rafael!</p>
+ this suggested by Rafael Rigues from Conectiva. Thanks Rafael!
+ Are you using GNU tools? Sometimes Sun's md5sum doesn't agree
+ with garnome</p>
<li><b>My build fails saying it can't find libglade-convert, but I've
@@ -275,12 +277,30 @@
<p>Make sure you save your session when logging out.</p>
+ <li><b>My build fails with: <tt>/usr/bin/install: cannot stat
+ `./html/index.sgml': No such file or directory</tt></b></li>
- <li><b>Who do I talk to about GARNOME?</b></li>
- <p>Join our <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list";>mailing
- list</a>, or visit #garnome on irc.gnome.org.</p>
+ <p>3 different solutions, in order from "most rightest" to "most
+ fastest"
+ <ol>
+ <li> Find out why <tt>gtkdoc-mkdb</tt> is failing (usually a
+ b0rked/non-existant docbook-dsssl install)
+ <li> <tt>touch $dirname/html/index.sgml</tt> and continue with the
+ make</li>
+ <li> change <tt>--enable-gtkdoc</tt> to <tt>--disable-gtkdoc</tt>
+ in the gar.conf.mk file</li>
+ </ol>
+ <br/>
+ </p>
+
+ <li><b>I have questions about GARNOME?</b></li>
+
+ <p>Join our
+ <a href="http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list";>
+ mailing list</a> (note the search functionality is <b>not</b>
+ working), or visit #garnome on irc.gnome.org.</p>
</ol>
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