Re: Helix Gnome on Solaris 8 pretends to install but doesn't.

["Mark R. Bowyer" <Moredhel earthling net>]

>From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@helixcode.com>

>> Then, if you're running it on Solaris 8, it downloads all the RPMs, sees that 
>> actually they're for Solaris 7 on stdout but says nothing in the GUI, allows 
>> you to say whether you want to use GDM for login, and deletes all the RPMs 
>> *without installing anything*.
>
>Please try the new installer.  And remove /opt/gnome before proceeding.


Sorry - I gave up on the binary route and have now installed everything from 
source.  There are some basic problems with the generated Makefiles (mostly the 
LIBS= lines aren't written correctly) but it seems to be working OK and going 
in.

Still can't get the CD player from Gnome-Media to access my CD, but the KDE one 
started failing on Solaris 8 a while ago too =OZ

Hopefully someone else can try the Helix-on-Solaris thing now.

Ta,
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