Re: Help with RH5.2 GNOME Installation

[bob smith <bob kehs ksd org>]

Go into the RPMS directory and do a rpm -U *
it might take 2 times.

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Darrell Earnshaw wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is my first message to the GNOME list, so if my question has
> already been addressed - my apologies, and please direct me to the
> appropriate source.
> 
> I have just purchased RedHat 5.2 with the express purpose of running
> GNOME. However, it appears that the installation script (install-gnome)
> doesn't seem to run "out of the box". The first problem I hit is an
> error message to the effect: "imlib = 1.8 is needed by
> imlib-cfgeditor-1.8-5". Attempts to update imlib-cfgeditor yield yet
> more depedency errors, and so on. I guess the initial question is: Has
> anyone successfully managed to execute the RedHat GNOME installation
> script without hours of depedency-chasing? If so, I'd really appreciate
> some guidance on where I may be going wrong. (Interestingly, the 5.1
> installation script wouldn't even run, hence the move to 5.2. Maybe
> there's a trend here.)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Darrell Earnshaw
> SAP Labs, Palo Alto.
> 
> 
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