On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:23:13PM -0500, JonesMB wrote > I am tired of FVWM95 and its apparent limitations and lack of new > development so I am ready for a new window manager. Plus I wanna try > something new and maybe break my system :-) >
WindowMaker is nice. > I am currently downloading gnome as I type this. I considered KDE > and settled on gnome. I am getting it from ftp.cybertrails.com using > apt. This is my first attempt at downloading with apt rather than > dselect and it wasn't that hard. The install page says I should > apt-get update then apt-get install task-gnome-apps task-gnome-net so > that's all I am doing. > > All you gnome users out there, if there are any "gotchas" you think I > should know please let me know via private email. I am in digest > mode so it could take a while before I see responses to the list. I > am also going to download the gnome documentation from www.gnome.org. > If you're getting them from gnome-stage-slink, be warned: when I downloaded them, one of the packages there (wmaker_*, I think) had a 'hidden' dependency (i.e., it depends on a library but it isn't listed as a dependency); you may have to add 'libwraster2' to the apt-get command line, or wmaker may not run. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
