Re: GNOME desktop install.
Re: GNOME desktop install.
- Subject: Re: GNOME desktop install.
- From: Brian Durant <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:11:53 +0100
Nope, '/sw/bin/gnome' doesn't work. I ran '/sw/bin/gnome' and then
logged out and back in again. I also followed the advice at
<http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/install.php#setup> and
viewed my ~/.profile file, which contains:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
. /sw/bin/init.sh
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
Any more ideas? I am at a loss. I have a "gnome-desktop" folder in
/swr/share/doc as well as one in /swr/share/omf, but I don't really know
what I am looking for here (newbie).
Cheers,
Brian
Allen Bennettt wrote:
"/sw/bin/gnome" should work regardless of your path or shell. Your fink
installation is in /sw so your xterm will not understand commands
installed by Fink. Running in terminal "/sw/bin/gnome" (then
logout of your user and back in) is supposed to set the correct path
for xterm or look at http://fink.sourceforge.net/
doc/users-guide/install.php#setup. for more info.
Allen Bennett
email@hidden
On Mar 6, 2006, at 3:00 AM, Brian Durant wrote:
I am using bash. OK, here is the output:
Terminal:
$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
X11R6/bin
Xterm:
$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
This is different, right? It looks different to me. What can I do
about this? (I am a newbie to all of this command line stuff.)
Cheers,
Brian
Allen Bennettt wrote:
What happens when you enter "echo $PATH" in terminal? is it
different in Xterm? did you set Fink up to use bash or tcsh?
-Allen Bennettt
email@hidden
Dyslexia means never having to say that you're yrros.
On Mar 5, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Brian Durant wrote:
I have just installed the latest binary version of the GNOME
desktop with Fink. I received the following:
"The following user entries will be added to your NetInfo database:
news:*:250:250::0:0:News Server:/dev/null:/dev/null
postgres:*:252:252::0:0:PostgreSQL Database Server:/dev/null:/dev/ null
games:*:253:253::0:0:Game Files Owner:/dev/null:/dev/null
canna:*:254:254::0:0:Canna Japanese Input Server:/dev/null:/dev/null
tomcat:*:257:257::0:0:Tomcat Servlet Engine:/sw/var/tomcat4:/dev/ null
opennms:*:259:259::0:0:OpenNMS Network Management:/sw/var/ opennms:/
dev/null
distcc:*:262:262::0:0:distcc daemon,,,:/sw/var/spool/distcc:/dev/ null
The following group entries will be added to your NetInfo database:
news:*:250:
postgres:*:252:postgres
games:*:253:
canna:*:254:
maildrop:*:256:
tomcat:*:257:
opennms:*:259:
distcc:*:262:distcc,root
Existing entries with these names or numbers will be overwritten or
otherwise affected by this. On the other hand, some Fink packages will
not work unless these entries are in the NetInfo database. You can
make
adjustments to the files /sw/etc/passwd-fink and
/sw/etc/group-fink now (from another window), then say yes here. Or
you can say no here and add the users and groups manually (e.g. on
your
central NetInfo server). If you don't know what all of this is about,
just say yes.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Merging user info...
Merging group info...
Done."
I chose "yes", as I didn't think I had any apps that were affected
by the above, but when I try to start the GNOME desktop with
XDroplets, I get the message that "gnome" doesn't appear in my
path. Bash returns "bash: gnome: command not found" regarless of
whether I try 'gnome' 'run gnome' or 'start gnome'. My "old" GNOME
based apps like AbiWord, StarDict, Gedit, etc. still work fine, so
I am having a hard time finding what the problem is. Anyone have
any ideas?
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