FC-4 installation -

[Bruce Miller]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Can anyone tell me exactly what to download, where to find it, and how 
> to install xfce on my FC-4 system?

I've downloaded, but not yet burned & installed, fc4.

I understand that xfcd is supposed to have been moved to "fedora-extras",
but that the repositories for fedora-extras are supposed to be known by yum.

Although yum _sorely_ needs a gui interface (imho), it's still a
pretty handy tool for installing and updating.  It will automatically
check for dependencies and (optionally) load those too.
(I don't know how friendly it is over dialup, though).

Try something like:
   su
   yum install xfce\* xfwm\*
to install all xfce related packages

> I'm learning how to use Gnome but that isn't what I intended.  Have 
> spent a number of hours downloading files via dial up, the only service 
> available in this rural area, but still can't satisfy all the dependencies.
> 
> The last attempt wanted pkgconfig, that didn't work either:
> 
> [root at box1 pkgconfig-0.15.0]# ./configure
> 
> -------------------------snip--------------------
> 
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
> 
> Anu help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
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