[KLUG Members] Family tree program

Brock Inglehart brocki1 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 24 20:55:01 EST 2005



On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 16:10 -0500, Tim Gray wrote:
> On Monday 21 February 2005 03:01 pm, Mark wrote:
> > > Tim Gray wrote:
> > > What is the stumbling block?
> >
> > Tim,
> >   Brock is a novice.  Maybe he doesn't know what Python, gnome-python
> > and pygtk2 are.  (To be honest, I'm not sure I know what pygtk2 is.)
> 
> Right, I guessed he was.  My question about the stumbling block wasn't 
> derisive in any way, which probably goes without saying with this reasonable 
> group, but I feel better having said it.  
> 
> I was pretty much just asking him to describe what part of the process he was 
> actually stuck on.  Hopefully those links to RPMs of GRAMPS for Suse are 
> helpful.
> 
> > Everyone,  (passing the ball here)
> >   How do we help Brock?  First, we have to show him how to check if the
> > packages are there.  I suspect Brock knows how to check the packages but
> > let's do a review for any other novices.  Second, in the case where one
> > of those packages are not there, can we give a step-by-step instruction
> > to show how to find them and install them?
> 
> I see that Adam suggested how he could help check to see if the packages are 
> installed.
> 
> I would think that installing one of those RPMS I linked to would result in 
> YAST prompting to install the dependencies.  I run slackware or I'd check it 
> myself.  If I get a round tuit, I may install Suse on VMWare to see if I can 
> get GRAMPS to install and run.  
> 
> What version of Suse are you running Brock?

Ah Hah, Finally a question that I understand.  9.2 Pro on CD.

Brock
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