Summary: oh duh, the website was the first place I looked. It has some information on how to compile using GARNOME but i don't want to do that. I want to compi...
Summary: Hello, After installing from source (./confirgue && make && make install) lets say you would want to unistall the program that you had built, but didn...
Summary: I agree and disagree....RPMs are nice and easy to install but are often compiled for compatibility and not perfomance. If you compile from source i...
Summary: KDE is not just eye candy, it much more...its clean, fast (faster than gnome), and easy to use, and bugfree... GNOME has far too many bugs to be ev...
Summary: can anyone tell me what the advantages of "installation from source" are over any regular RPM installation or using binaries. thanks in advance ...
Summary: Lol, don't tell me you're trying to install Gnome from source! You'll have to compile everything with the _exact_ same compiler, and install everythin...
Summary: Hi cdrigby, Thanks for your advice. Are you now running GNOME 2.4 after following the inststruction on the URL in your posting? On about Dec. 29,200...
Summary: You need to switch to a different runlevel. You are running a graphical login, I assume, so everytime X is closed it will immediately restart. Press...
Summary: If you install from source, the program will probably be put into /usr/local/bin, the old version will remain in /usr/bin, and the /usr/bin version wi...
Summary: If you want to learn, compile everything yourself, you should compile a system from scratch. That way you'll be the creator of your system, so you'll ...
Summary: Hello, everyone. I believe that 'arochester' is talking about the Windowing environment XFCE (XFCE.org). It uses less memory that KDE or Gnome and has...
Summary: Hi everybody, I'm using debian-3.0 with the linux-2.4.18-bf2.4 but i have two problems: - 1st, I want to get the right kernel source but i can't. When...
Summary: Hello, I down loaded the source tar.gz for a CD Burner frontend called K3B. When I tried installing, I got as far as "./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3"....
Summary: Hi I have a problem with my GNOME. Every time I tray to start GNOME message like this pops up: Colud not look up internet address for localhost. Th...
Summary: Gentoo is great but certainly not easy to set up. Well, once you get the hang its pretty easy and very configurable....it just takes time as everythin...
Summary: Have you disabled all unrequired services (sendmail, postfix, mysql, postgres etc)? How about trying a different window manager as both KDE and gnome ...
Summary: Go for Slack 9.1 it is the latest stable release. Yes it has a graphic interface. It will default to KDE but you can also install Gnome or many other ...
Summary: I need to know how to uninstall programs made from source that don't have uninstall files. To be more specific, I need to uninstall ProFTPD. Does anyo...
Summary: When I su into root it doesn't seem to be in the path either. I would just add what you did above in /root/.profile to add it to my root path correct?...
Summary: its easy to upgrade kde, unlike gnome where you have to upgrade hundreds of packages... You need 2 packages, kdebase and kdelibs for the base sys...
Summary: swaret seems to be the binary package manager of choice for Slackware. It's similar to apt. If you want to build from source, pkgsrc is probably the w...
Summary: I on my Windows XP machine and I want to from my X-server bring-up Gnome2 onto my Windows XP desktop,, what is the command to exec start gnome from my...
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