Guyub – Konsultan F/OSS

pIn the last post I’ve shown how to create keyrings using python and mentioned a slightly difference from the seahorse password storing process. Well, it happens that, when we start to dig this difference isn’t so small. Using seahorse every keyring item is created with the Update if Exists flag as False, so you can create identical keyring items. This is not a safe approach and can result in an inconsistent keyring. But as we use the Update if Exists flag set as True, something uRead More…

My friend, Walecha has successfully build GNOME 2.30 from source on his Slackware machine. The screenshots can be seen at his blog post. He posted a GNOME build order on another post (based on GNOME 2.26) and i think there has to be some changes to build 2.30 from 2.26. Yes, GNOME build are definitely BIGGER than KDE and probably that’s one of the reason why GNOME is now left away from Slackware besides PAM problem.

Before you build your own GNOME 2.30, please know that you might need to upgrade other packages which are the requirements of GNOME 2.30 and it’s not yet satisfied in Slackware-Current, so you will have to compile it from source.

FYI, the blog post about the build order is in Indonesian language, but don’t worry about that. Just read the order of the packages and you should be fine.