Help! I need to install GNOME.

ShadowTech · #1 October 22nd, 2003, 08:03 PM

Ok, here is my story. I'm trying to install gnome for the purpose of playing GTetrinet (an online tetris game) on my OS 10.2.8 machine.

I have been following this guide. I installed Fink like it told me to. That was easy enough. The next step was to install X. I had put Apple's X11 on my system about a month ago for openoffice. From what I can tell, I don't need to install this "xfree86-base" system. Or do I? The next step in the guide was to install gnome.

This is where I'm really stuck. There isn't any links or clear instructions on how to do this. Can anyone explain how I would do this?

Thanks alot.

symphonix · #2 October 22nd, 2003, 08:24 PM

If you install Apple's X11, there is a package within Fink called an "X11 Placeholder" - this tells Fink that you already have an X11 system installed, allowing you to install packages that depend on X11 without any trouble. Can't remember the exact name of the package, but it will be under the X11 section of the Fink package selector.

naodx · #3 October 22nd, 2003, 09:17 PM

The easiest, at least for me, was to get a program called fink commander (found on www.versiontracker.com) it is a gui app for fink.

Then open fink commander and look for the gnome package, and install.

I can't remember how long it took to compile, but it did take a while.

That should do it for you.

Open up X11, and the command is something like start_gnome, or gnome_start, or something like that.

If you have auto completion turned on in the terminal try typing 'start' then hit the tab key to see a list of commands that begin with start. If it isn't there, then try the same with 'gnome'.

Cat · #4 October 23rd, 2003, 03:44 AM

Steps to take for Gnome:
-Download and install Fink
-Download and install FinkCommander
-Install package "system-XFree86" (Placeholder package for manually installed XFree86)
-Install package "bundle-Gnome" (GNOME convenience package)
-Done!

ShadowTech · #5 October 23rd, 2003, 05:44 PM

Thanks for the tips, I will try it out!

filter · #6 October 30th, 2003, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by naodx

The easiest, at least for me, was to get a program called fink commander (found on www.versiontracker.com) it is a gui app for fink.

Then open fink commander and look for the gnome package, and install.

I can't remember how long it took to compile, but it did take a while.

That should do it for you.

Open up X11, and the command is something like start_gnome, or gnome_start, or something like that.

Is it as easy as that, if so I'm having problems. Panther user, installed x11 and x11sdk from xCode cd. Also installed fink, fink installed sw at the top level of my hd. Installed Fink Commander, clicked on the first icon, the Install Binary Package(s), for system-xfree86, as well as Gnome convenience package, Film Gimp, and Gimp.

From here I'm lost, not sure what to do, startx?, start_gnome?, what should I do to launch Gnome. I launched x11 and the xterm came up typed in startx-- -rootless, nothing, as well as gnome_start. Am I supposed to go down to a certain folder until I launch Gnome, what am I doing wrong? A bit frustrated. Any help would be great, guru's help out an x11 newb.

mr. k · #7 October 30th, 2003, 08:40 PM

ahhh - google is truly a gift. a google search on 'gnome on mac osx x11' turned up a fairly helpful tutorial with respect to using gnome under os x. It looks like this guy was trying to do what you were -- run a nice game through GNOME.

filter · #8 October 30th, 2003, 08:59 PM

Thanks Mr. K. for the link, ironically it happens to be the same link as the original poster had given as their tutorial. It also relies on xfree86 which to my understanding is no longer needed, even harmful under x11 for Panther. I went through the tutorial ignoring the xfree86 stuff and for the life of me I'm not sure if my sw is in the correct area.

Should fink have installed my sw folder at the top, or in one of my user folders? Did a find for .xinitrc and came up with nothing. Hmmm.