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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi,

I did  a fresh install this weekend and came up with a few problems.

During the rebuild modutils failed. Later, when xfree86 4.3 failed, 
missing yylex variable, or something like that. I found if I downgraded 
flex from 2.5.31 to 2.5.27 both these installed fine.

Next problem was when installing gnome-2-desktop-profile, gtk+2 would 
fail because it couldn't find pango. So I quit installing 
gnome-2-desktop-profile, installed pango and restarted installing 
gnome-2-desktop-profile. This time gtk+2 installed fine. Should pango be 
made a dependency of gtk+2? I've noticed this in the past, I would get a 
lot of failed spells when installing gnome-2-desktop-profile, but not 
the second time, I assume it's because pango was installed later.

Finally, I had trouble installing libglade2, in the PRE_BUILD it tries 
to install Python, but it couldn't find the "remove_depends" command, so 
I commented this out of the file. Even with this it took a while for 
libglade to restart compilation while installing Python, I checked the 
processor usage for casting Python and it was zero for a while so I quit 
this and removed the PRE_BUILD file, knowing that Python-expat was 
installed. I think I was just being impatient. Anyway, just a note on 
the remove-depends command.

Now everything is installed, bar a couple of spells and I can get X to 
start but can't get gdm to start. I'll keep working away at it. Will 
keep you posted.

Cheers, Duane