[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
>
More information about the Members
mailing list