Help Installing GNOME

[shebang]

[quote author=trickster link=board=6;threadid=8646;start=0#msg78103 date=1076019878]
Try copying all the gnome rpm's to a folder, change directories into that folder, and do rpm -Uvh *.rpm
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Well, Actually I went into the Software installer for Drake and installed all the GNOME packages and all the dependencies as well so I have no Idea what to do now.. I added it into the sessions under the Login Manager but when I try to get into GNOME it just opens up IceWM.

[trickster]

http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/GDP/g.../starting.html

[countach44]

Make a new partition on move all of your data to that one, and then reinstall...

[Tyr_7BE]

[quote author=countach44 link=board=6;threadid=8646;start=0#msg78106 date=1076022216]
Make a new partition on move all of your data to that one, and then reinstall...
[/quote]

Don't do that.

If you have to resort to backing up your entire OS to get a program installed there are serious problems.

Now I have absolutely no clue how Mandy does their package management. Is urpmi the package installer? If so, read up on how it works (probably "man urpmi&quot. Taking a look at your previous post, it's probably "urpmi gnome-desktop". So long as your upgrade info is current, there's a chance that'll do it.

[Schotty]

Boot up, change to runlevel 3

Then do :

xinit && gnome-session

[shebang]

[quote author=Slave Copy link=board=6;threadid=8646;start=0#msg78121 date=1076044784]
Boot up, change to runlevel 3

Then do :

xinit && gnome-session
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how do i change the runlevel? (what is the runlevel?)

[countach44]

type init 3
for runlevel three.
your /etc/inittab has what your runlevels are defined as.

# These are the default runlevels in Slackware:
# 0 = halt
# 1 = single user mode
# 2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel)
# 4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers)
# 5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
# 6 = reboot

--from my inittab