Upgrade of xfce and slackware

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Thu Nov 27 08:12:48 CET 2003


Op wo 26-11-2003, om 23:24 schreef Chris Green:
> I have just upgraded my slackware from 9.0 to 9.1 and xfce from 3.8.18 to 4.0.1.
> 
> The slackware upgrade was amazingly easy but the xfce one was slightly more
> difficult.
> 
> The difficulty was that xfce4 needs the libstartup-notification-1.so library and
> this is on the second slackware CD in the gnome packages directory which I
> hadn't installed.  As I have lots of space I just installed gnome as well and
> now xfce4 is up an running.
> 
> Maybe the non-base-system dependencies should be made more explicit.

You're not blaming us for the lack of dependency handling in slackware,
are you?

If you read the install instructions on the web site you would have seen
it is an optional dependency.

	Jasper




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