Ximian v.s. U-L-B Gnome

aherm · 01-08-2004, 12:01 PM

Ximian v.s. U-L-B GNOME?

http://ximian.com/products/desktop/
http://www.usr-local-bin.org/

Any pro's/con's using any of them on SUSE 9.0?
Please give some advises :-)

Thanks.

XavierP · 01-08-2004, 01:23 PM

Ximian Desktop can autoinstall your downloaded with minimal input from you, the ulb packages have to be installed as rpms. The Ximian offering will resolve dependencies for you, the ulb won't.

They are both quite different. The choice depends on you.

aherm · 01-08-2004, 05:22 PM

I try to install Ximian Desktop 2 after trying U-L-B for a week.
It dosn't give me error messages but it won't load when I choose gnome during login.

Any suggestion to overcome this problem?

XavierP · 01-08-2004, 05:34 PM

How did you install it? I normally use the wget script on the Ximian website.

aherm · 01-08-2004, 09:44 PM

I also use the script as root inside KDE:

wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh

I chose not to use the Red Carpet but install it from a mirror instead.
Otherwise I press enter or as suggested in the installation processes.
Just a few clicks and enter enter enter ... it will restart the X server but I only be able to login in KDE :-(

Any clue?

XavierP · 01-09-2004, 03:52 PM

I normally go via Red Carpet (useful for updates) and have never had a problem with it. Apart from the fact that I prefer KDE to Gnome

aherm · 01-09-2004, 09:58 PM

I try to install Ximian Gnome three times with different scenarios.
Red Carpet is installed and used it for upgrading some suggested packages.
It seems has some conflicts with apt-get.

Eventhough I uninstall ulb-gnome before installation, Ximian Gnome failed to load.
Somehow kdmrc got corrupted.

Now trying to uninstall Ximian and resurrected ulb-gnome again.
Oh well, it was ugly maybe I should stick with KDE.

I think I like KDE best ;-)