Comments on Installing GNOME On PCLinuxOS 2007

If you want the complete Gnome desktop then search for task-gnome and select it. This is a meta package to pull in everything you need for the Gnome desktop. Hope this helps a little.

 Tex

 

 

 

Triied installing task manager full, minimal and the manual method - problem is broken dependencies.  So, on the minimal install:

task-gnome-minimal:
 Depends: gnome-panel (>=2.20.2) but it is not installable
 Depends: gnome-terminal (>=2.18.3) but it is not installable
 Depends: nautilus but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: yelp but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: gnome-control-center (>=2.20.0.1) but it is not installable
 Depends: gnome-volume-manager (>=1.5.15) but it is not installable

Already tried updating the OS via synaptic, but it broke the system and left me with aan unusable OS.  Seems there is no obvious way of adding anything on from repositories without messing up the system, aand no way of updating the system.  This is why I don't use linux - but I thought PClinux looked OK.

M 

Falko,

You can save much time and effort by installing the Gnome Meta Package available through synaptic.  It's labeled "task-gnome".  Searching for this in synaptic will bring up a 'minimal' package and a standard one.  Select the non standard to get the normal gnome packages and the minimal for a minimalistic install. 

Hard for me to say what the problem might be(I am a beginner with Linux), but Tex and the Ripper gang are hard at work on getting PCLinuxOS 2009 out the door. They have just closed testing on Beta3 and I expect a 4th Beta and then the final to be here before too much longer.

 

Just as an aside, if you just loaded 2007, did you update everything after installation? The reason I ask is because they have just done a MAJOR update to the repositories. Go to www.pclinuxos.com/ to access the forums for more info.

 

Anthony