hi... ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28 Oct 2002 14:43:22 -0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: GNOME 2 install failure
>>steps in the GNOME.ORG site, but whan some packages are being installed some >>errors ocurrs... I get an error message that says: Input is not proper UTF-8, >>indicate encoding ! >the same happens here, during installation of file-roller2. After that, >various dependency problems let the whole installation fail. >I tried to install Gnome2 during the last week so I can't remember the exact >problem given from apt. IIRC it was an *omf* file under >/usr/share/omf/ that >broked things. >Has anybody experienced or solved that? the same here. i did not dig that deep into the matter, but here is what i found out: the omf-files try to reference a DTD ... from the net and not from a local location. while installing there occurs a connection attempt to www.open-oasis.org. by the time i installed gnome2 on my machine the web server was completely unavailable. now it says: Patience .. ca arrive.. well... but if you have the patience you can apt-get -f install until every tried connection times out and the packages are then "properly" installed. i also have the vague feeling that gnome2 tries to connect to the aforementioned server when starting up, so it takes some time to be ready to use. anyway, gnome2 hit the official unstable last sunday, so i expect it to be in testing within 2 weeks. :) cheers, sebastian -- Powered by Outblaze