[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware and Ximian Gnome (Final Post)

[Rev. wRy]

Patrick Parks wrote:

> Error!
> 
> Sorry, the operating system unknown is not supported by this
> Ximian Desktop CD. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please see
> http://www.ximian.com/desktop/ for more information.

Heh.  Yeah, slack isn't a supported distro for the ximian gnome desktop.

They figure that if you know enough to get slack running, you don't need 
their installers helping you.

From:
<http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=POPlvWog&p_lva=5&p_faqid=8&p_created=989319921&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1TbGFja3dhcmUmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT02JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPX5hbnl_JnBfY2F0X2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE*&p_li=>

So, what can you do, elite Slackware user, ignored by market forces and 
business types, if you want the prettiest, bestest desktop in the Linux 
land? You can download pre-rolled tgzs from the variety of Slack 
software mirrors, or get the binary rpms or source rpms from the Red Hat 
directory at our ftp site, and install by hand with rpm. Or you can 
convert them to slack packages with rpm2tgz. And, in a brave trick of 
hackery, you can fool the graphical installer into thinking you're a Red 
Hat user. The command:

echo "Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)" > /etc/redhat-release

has been reported to make the installer work, although you're likely to 
have difficulty with one or another dependency somewhere. Official 
Ximian support of this method is not available, and we cannot give you 
any guarantees.

> Cleaning up temporary files... done.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /snip

Ry