From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:35:45 -0600 From: D&J Bouley In-reply-to: <20040114090127.AB0BC48020@lrn.ru> To: ALT Linux Community Message-id: <1074083745.30854.1.camel@VirtualSkyNet> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1- (1.2.1-alt3) Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20040114090127.AB0BC48020@lrn.ru> Subject: [Comm-en] Gnome desktop X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:38:39 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: > D&J Bouley wrote: > > > Yes, when I bring up Synaptic and search for Gnome, I get a list of four > > > >files (listed under the "Graphical Desktop/GNOME" package group): > >GConf2, gnome-settings, icons-BlueSphere, and ibGConf2. Each are listed > >as "Installed Versions" although "gnome-settings" has an Inst. Size of > >zero. > > > > > Oh, these packages are only minor components of GNOME, which are > included because they are used by the other packages in Compact. For > example, gnome-settings is used to manage GTK2 themes, even if it is not > run from within GNOME. > > The core GNOME2 libraries and applications are missing there. > > >I should be able to manage that. Can I just simply add the Sisyphus > >"base" repositories to the enabled Synaptic list? This would be the URI > >"ftp://ftp.altlinux.com/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus. > > > > > > > Well, can you select 'Preferences -> Repositories' in your Synaptic > menu? And choose the appropriate repositories from there? That's what I'll do. Thanks! :) David. -- ============================================ (o_ //\ \/_/ E-mail powered by Linux ============================================ ======