RE: SCO UNIX install

["Don Campbell" <DCampbell perimetertechnology com>]

Hi, Warren!

> Which SCO Unix?  OpenServer or UnixWare?

Sorry to have been vague about this: I'm going to be installing OpenServer
v. 5.0.5. Perimeter's software runs on OpenServer. I would prefer to use
UnixWare, but that's just not what I need to learn; I'm looking at this as
an opportunity to learn something about Gnome at the same time. Even the
problems I encounter will teach me a lot--I'm just trying to avoid
_unnescessary_ problems.

> Obviously you need to get GLib and Gtk+ running first.  At that point
> you might want to compile a few simple apps like, oh, gtkfontsel and
> gpasman to make sure the basics are working.  Then compile the rest as
> recommended on the GNOME site.

Thanks for the suggestions: that's just the kind of advice I'm looking for.

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-list-admin@gnome.org [mailto:gnome-list-admin@gnome.org]On
> Behalf Of Warren Young
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:07 AM
> To: Gnome List
> Subject: Re: SCO UNIX install
>
>
> Don Campbell wrote:
> >
> > I'm new to Gnome and am about to install SCO UNIX at home on a small
> > two-computer network, just to learn more about the OS. I have
> searched the
> > list archives for any postings on SCO installs of Gnome and come up
> > empty-handed. I'm sure others more knowlegable than I have been
> down this
> > road before and I was wondering if one of you can point me towards some
> > documentation on "do's and don'ts"--avoidable pitfalls, etc.
>
> Which SCO Unix?  OpenServer or UnixWare?  I highly suspect you'll have
> the least problems with UW7, simply because they've added a lot of
> compatibility to their libraries to support certain functionalities that
> other Unixen (like Linux) like to do differently than UnixWare.
> OpenServer, on the other hand, has remained rooted in 1997 -- ah, the
> days before my grandmother had heard of Linux!
>
> Obviously you need to get GLib and Gtk+ running first.  At that point
> you might want to compile a few simple apps like, oh, gtkfontsel and
> gpasman to make sure the basics are working.  Then compile the rest as
> recommended on the GNOME site.
>
> If you run into trouble, post a large chunk of the last things the
> system printed before it died.  Hopefully it'll die in ./configure with
> an intelligible error message if it has trouble at all, but sometimes
> we're not that lucky.
>
> Good luck,
> --
> = Warren -- ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m
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