Re: GNOME doesn't work for me.

["Mohammad Abdin" <rafat kcs org kw>]

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote:

> I decided to try out GNOME 1.0, so being a debian user I dl'ed and
> compiled all the packages in the order suggested on the www.gnome.org.
> I followed all instructions and read all the appropriate docs.
> I ran into some trouble however, some of which I solved, but these
> remain:
> 
> 1) enlightenment-conf's make  gives me a lot of error messages of this type:
> 
> e-conf.o(.text+0xee0d): undefined reference to `capplet_widget_get_type'
> e-conf.o(.text+0xee1d): undefined reference to `capplet_widget_state_changed'
Install 'control-center' first
 
> 2) gdm's make says:
> 
> /usr/lib/libwrap.a(hosts_access.o): In function `host_match':
> hosts_access.o(.text+0x4c1): undefined reference to `yp_get_default_domain'
> 
> 3) gnome-admin's make:
> 
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x838): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_CList'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x844): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_Table'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x848): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_Label'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x84c): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_VBox'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x850): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_CheckButton'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x854): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gtk_Button'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x85c): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gnome_App'
> gulp.o(.rodata+0x860): undefined reference to `__objc_class_name_Gnome_AppWin'
Try installing gnome-objc

> 4) gnumeric's configure:
> 
> configure: error: Could not link sample xml program
> -------------------------------------------------------
Do you have libxml? (isn't that gnome-xml?)

> Anyway, none of these are essential, right? So, I tried to run it.
> Is this a correct .xsession for that (note that debian uses .xsession
> not .xinitrc):
> 
> panel &
> /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment
> 
> E starts to load, but the percentage meter thing stops at 94%, and
> then nothing else happens.
> 
> So I tried to run it with my old fvwm2 (changing the E line above to
> 'exec fvwm2'). The panel loads, but there's not a single icon on it,
> not even the 'foot'. And the home dir icon on the desktop
> doesn't. appear until I run gmc.
> 
> I would be very happy for any help, gnome seems really great if you
> get it to work.
> 
> -- 
> -~* Daniel Elenius *~-
> 
> 
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