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August 13th, 2006, 07:08 AM
#1
Senior Member
How to Install GNOME on Minix?
OK, long story short, after getting a junk computer, I installed Minix on it (first time I'm using it, it's fun!) and I'd prefer to install GNOME on it.
Is there any official way to do this or would I have to hack the pre-existing GNOME to work on Minix?
I don't know if this has been tried before, but I suspect it hasn't since several exhaustive google searches came up empty
I just installed it and I installed all 48 packages onto the junk computer, X11 runs fine but I want gnome (or CDE even!) rather than the given desktop environment. I have no clue how to approach this though.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him." Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
Buddies? I have no buddies...
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August 13th, 2006, 01:01 PM
#2
do you have gtk, atk, pango, etc. installed? Just wondering..
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August 13th, 2006, 05:35 PM
#3
Senior Member
Sadly, no I don't have any of those programs installed.
I'm getting them onto a DVD and installing them as we speak, after this what would I download (GNOME itself?).
Thanks!
"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him." Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
Buddies? I have no buddies...
Give the BSD daemon some love (proud FreeBSD user)
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August 13th, 2006, 09:47 PM
#4
Senior Member
OK, now I've run into a stupid problem with ASH (the minix equivalent of BASH), I can't figure out how to copy the tar.gz files from a DVD to the /tmp/ directory.
I've got the files I need to install gtk, pongo, et al. on the DVD. I've tried "cp /CD /tmp" but it didn't work (naturally).
So now I'm stuck by my own ignorance of ASH.
"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him." Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
Buddies? I have no buddies...
Give the BSD daemon some love (proud FreeBSD user)
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August 13th, 2006, 10:17 PM
#5
mount /path/to/dvd/ then try (as root)
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