[SOLVED] third party Gnome 2.x

Knightron · 06-28-2011, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Knightron

i checked out your link, and i haven't installed any packages before, and was wondering, what one would do with the contents of that link lol.

just wanted to bump this because i still dont know and this part seemed to have been overlooked

sahko · 06-29-2011, 05:23 AM

You could go to http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkma...-4.8/packages/ , select the architecture you are using and download and install the packages from the directory.

eg. lftp -c "open http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkma...ackages/i486/; mirror xfce-4.8" then installpkg the txz's.

Knightron · 06-30-2011, 07:44 PM

i haven't done it, yet, but thanks 4 the answer, so i install each of them packages in that package directory and then i can just start that xfce with xwmconfig? Or do i have to un install the current used xfce?

yuuko · 06-30-2011, 08:02 PM

You can use 'upgradepkg --install-new ' to upgrade the existing packages and install the new packages.

andrewthomas · 06-30-2011, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Knightron

i'm using the 32bit Slackware by the way, (forgot to mention). I've seen http://gnomeslackbuild.org/ before, when i searching for the answer. Like george-lappies says, the websight says it's for Slackware 13.1. Would that Slackbuild work for 13.37?

Before I decided to move on to LXDE, I built GNOME-2.32 on 13.37 using the gsb-build-system.

https://github.com/gnomeslackbuild/g...d-system/wiki/

I had to play with it for a few packages, but it runs great and it is built against all the latest packages.

Knightron · 07-02-2011, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by yuuko

You can use 'upgradepkg --install-new ' to upgrade the existing packages and install the new packages.

um, hi, i'm not entirely sure what to do here. Do i have to do that for each txz file i downloaded? cold you please give an example of one of the commands?

Diantre · 07-02-2011, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Knightron

um, hi, i'm not entirely sure what to do here. Do i have to do that for each txz file i downloaded? cold you please give an example of one of the commands?

Take a look at the upgradepkg man page, it says:

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--install-new
       Normally  upgradepkg  only upgrades packages that are already installed
       on the system, and will skip any packages that do not  already  have  a
       version installed.  If --install-new is specified, the behavior is mod‐
       ified to install new packages in addition to upgrading existing ones.

So if you have several packages in a directory, you can type:

Code:

upgradepkg --install-new *t?z

Knightron · 07-02-2011, 10:14 PM

Thanks guys, i got it up and running doing that command Diantre, i'm giving this xfce more of a go. I'm already liking it a lot more. Must admit though it's getting to be more like gnome 2.x. Thanks everyone, and thanks Robby.