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Author: Vaughn Treude
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: One more gentoo question
On Saturday 06 March 2004 18:07, you wrote:
> To install Gnome, just run `emerge gnome`. (This is mentioned in the
> Gentoo Handbook)


True, but I was trying to be lazy and do the install from CD, since I'd
bothered to download both CD images! But I decided, OK, I'll do it the right
way. I got the network started and ran the "emerge gnome." The first time
it aborted due to symbol conflicts (unfortunately I didn't run it to a log.)
When redoing it, I noticed that many of the servers refused my login as
"anonymous", that same of the URL's returned a 404 error, and that some of
the other sites (particularly one with in the ".ro" domain - romania?) didn't
respond at all. This is with following the instructions on the "Gentoo
Linux Desktop Configuration Guide." Well, it's been educational. :-) It's
certainly not critical, since I'm just configuring this as a test platform,
but if anybody else has any clues, I'd appreciate it.

Vaughn

>
> On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:20, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Well, I followed all the instruction and got gnome installed and booting.
> > (Woo hoo!) I also got X installed and working. But I wanted a real
> > desktop manager. I went to CD 2 and untarred every package that started
> > with "gnome." Then I changed the last line of the /etc/rc.conf file to
> > make the X session a Gnome sesssion. It tries to start, gets the "X"
> > cursors and fails without any error messages, not to the screen or the
> > the log file. There was formerly a failure from the "Hostname" command -
> > the host name is set but the NIC is not yet configured - so I added the
> > hostname to the "hosts" file, and that went away. I think that's a red
> > herring, though, or X wouldn't work at all. Do any of you gentoo gurus
> > out there know if there are any other necessary steps (that I may have
> > missed) to getting gnome to work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vaughn
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