On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:37:55AM -0500, Curtis Dean Smith wrote: > Hello! > > I am running Potato, but am getting impatient for some of the newer > Gnome apps (like gnumeric 1). I have not found much comment on the > pros or cons of installing Ximian Gnome on Debian Potato using their > red-carpet, but I am a bit hesitant since my last experience with > Helix on Potato (it crashed my xfs). Can anyone give me their > experiences and/or advise?
I used to have it installed - never had any problem even when they were Helix... But right now, if I did not want to update to woody for some reason, then I would get all the sources I needed and tried to compile the deb against older stuff in potato [some libraries may not exist so they would need to be compiled as well]. - Ada,
