[ale] Can anyone help me get the Rox Filer to work with E inSUSE 9.1

[Geoffrey]

Hughes, Michael wrote:
> Have not seen any RPM's for it, guess I am looking in the wrong place.

I just went to packman put 'rox' in the search field and found:

http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=148
http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=149

I've not tried to install them.

> 
> The version of E is 0.16 which is what was on the install cd's.  
> I followed the instructions and steps located here
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/SUSE
> 
> SUSE
> 
> Download the RPMs from http://packman.links2linux.de/. You need (from
> the Other category):
> 
>     * shared-mime-info
>     * rox-filer
> 
> You do not need rox-base, that has been made redundant.
> 
> Installation is similar to Red Hat.
> 
> I downloaded the above packages and then tried to install them using the
> redhat procedures and then it keeps asking me to resolve various
> dependencies which I then download the requested items from here
> http://packman.links2linux.org/ and install them and it's a never ending
> cycle of required dependencies.  
> 
> Would an rpm install solve my dependency problem?  I was thinking of
> starting over with a clean install and letting it install all the
> various features this time around.  
> 
> Can you provide a link to the rpm download site?  
> 
> Also I have heard you can use YaST to install Rpm's but I have not
> figured that out yet either.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:37 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Can anyone help me get the Rox Filer to work with E
> inSUSE 9.1
> 
> 
> Hughes, Michael wrote:
> 
>>I have SUSE 9.1 ( I think ).  I like the E window manager and would 
>>like to install the Rox filer on top of E. I downloaded the proper 
>>packages according to the instructions on the Rox Wiki and 
>>rox.sourceforge.net websites.  I followed the limited instructions and
> 
> 
>>still it is not working.  I was thinking about just starting over with
> 
> 
>>a new build as I have some other issues as well.
> 
> 
> It appears that there are rpms available, have you tried them?
> 


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Until later, Geoffrey