Re: [SOLVED Fwd: Re: Re: Galeon deps and Mozilla 1.7.7/FC3]

Hello Gavin,


On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:34:45 +0800 Gavin Chester <[email protected]>
wrote:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Gavin Chester <[email protected]>
> > To: wwp <[email protected]>, galeon <galeon-
> > [email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Galeon-user] Re: Galeon deps and Mozilla 1.7.7/FC3
> > Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:47:27 +0800
> > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:00 +0200, wwp wrote:
> > > Hello gavin,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:19:56 +0800 gavin <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:34:23 +0200, wwp wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm using galeon 1.3.20 from the sources upon an updated FC3
> > > > > environment. Yum proposed me to upgrade from mozilla 1.7.6 (against
> > > > > which I've built galeon) to mozilla 1.7.7.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does anyone know if it's safe to me to upgrade the FC3 packages to
> > > > > mozilla 1.7.7? If so, would I even have to re-build galeon?
> > > > 
> 
> -snip-
> 
> > On your reply indicating that my dependency problem lay with Dag's rpm,
> > I built galeon 1.3.20 from source against Moz 1.7.7 installed from yum
> > on FC3.  It compiled without error, but when I went to run it I got this
> > error as a popup dialog:
> > 
> > ###############
> > Bonobo couldn't locate the file "GNOME_Galeon_Automation.server".
> > 
> > Usually this is an indication of an incomplete installation. 
> > See the INSTALL document for more details.
> > ##############
> 
> -snip- 
> 
> A classic case of RTFM :-0.  The galeon install guide mentioned the
> problem I had specifically, so I followed its advice and updated the
> bonobo activation server as it says by this command:
> 
> ############
> bonobo-activation-sysconf --add-directory=/opt/gnome/lib/bonobo/servers
> 
> You will probably also need to restart bonobo-activation-server after 
> telling it where to find the GNOME_Galeon_Automation.server file.
> ###########
> 
> I googled on restating the activation server and found that it was
> recommended to do this:
> 
> #########
> You will then need to restart bonobo-activation-server.  I usually do:
> "killall bonobo-activation-server; killall gnome-panel" to accomplish
> that. (From: Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>)
> ########
> 
> After doing as suggested I then typed galeon in a terminal and ... 
> presto, I have galeon back again.  
> 
> So long way around to answering your question is that, YES
> galeon 1.3.20 does work with Mozilla 1.7.7 in FC3 when galeon is 
> built from source.  Yay.

Wow, what a gnome attitude :-). That bonobo is still obscure to me, it's time
for me to eat some documentation! Thanks for the complete solution, Gavin,
much appreciated!


Regards,

-- 
wwp



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