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| 245595 | 2004-06-18 01:49:00 | Hey guys, I remember chill saying something about xfce a while ago, found the post, but it only ever talks about redhat. I've got the drake 9.1 and went to the xfce site and the sourceforge site and all the rpms etc say either i386 or source. I see i686 commonly when starting mandrake so I put 2 and 2 together and found it equalled four. So then I go to the clevername site and it says I have to download a whole list and get the packages with wget, or pick them out of the link list. Now me as a linux n00bie, is gonna find it hard to get all those packages to work together, or install them in correct order... Is there a tarball package.... and what is checkinstall? Cheers n00bie_M |
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| 245596 | 2004-06-18 02:12:00 | Hi William, Mandrake 9.0 came with Xfce 3.xyz IIRC, so Mandrake 9.1 should come with Xfce also (Im not sure if it'll be the latest 4.x release but it should be recent enough). You're right, you want i386 as it is forward compatible with i586, i586, athlon compiled packages etc. It doesnt mean it'll only work on a 386, but that it was compiled so it _can_ run on a 386 (As opposed to the i686 packages which need at least a PentiumPro CPU, probably with MMX Extensions to run). Download all the relevant .rpm packages from clevername.homeip.net (Click on each one, download it, then start on the next). Save them all to a folder, say, /home/willie_M/xfce4setup This will just keep things nice and simple :-) Once you've got ALL the rpm's from that site, open up a konsole or gnome-terminal and type: su - [enter root password] rpm -Uvh /home/willie_M/xfce4setup/*.rpm This will install all the rpm's for you. If you then logout, you should be able to choose which Window Manager you use when you Login. If not then post back here and we'll help you some more :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
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| 245597 | 2004-06-18 08:53:00 | Cools thanks... >You're right, you want i386 as it is forward compatible with i586, i586, athlon compiled packages etc. It doesnt mean it'll only work on a 386, but that it was compiled so it _can_ run on a 386 (As opposed to the i686 packages which need at least a PentiumPro CPU, probably with MMX Extensions to run). Oh, I see now.... >Once you've got ALL the rpm's from that site, open up a konsole or gnome-terminal and type: Thanks, I'll go try that and post back... Cheers |
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