HP-UX admin challenge.

[Steven E. Protter]

Has anyone ever gotten the gnome environment running on HP-UX 11.00 or 11.11?

I tried it on 11.00 and althought I got all the depots to install, I couldn't get the environment to come up.

I've never liked CDE and wanted to make my X a little more Linux-like. I know. Bad Steve. Steve should like CDE.

Problem is Steve doesn't

Steve

[John Poff]

Hi Steve,

I've never tried it, but it sounds like fun. I remember reading a while back that HP was going to move away from CDE and make Gnome their default X windows environment.

JP

[Pete Randall]

Steve,

A couple of comments for you:

1) I think I can verify that gnome is the direction of the moment - see this thread (and it's referenced thread):

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x480f543254bfd611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

2) Despite my whining in the above thread about converting yet again, I am planning on attempting exactly that - probably in January. I'll let you know how it goes.

Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

I'd heard that HP was going to gnome with HP-UX 12.

I'm just trying to get ahead of the curve, plus I think gnone has a much better User Interface.

This is one area I can't go to support on because they don't support it on 11.X

I'm still itching to try it.

Steve

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve,

Sorry to dissapoint you but gnome is supported on HPUX 11.0 :)

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

OOOOOPs

Damn missed the last bit.

No support is available for this release of Ximian GNOME for HP-UX.

Well have good vacation anyway,

Kind regards,

Robert-jan.

[Tony Contratto]

Hi Steve,

I had it running on a test box a couple of months ago. I don't remember having any problems getting it to run, I just followed the install instructions provided by HP.

Tony

[Oleg Zieaev_1]

Hello Steve.

I installed gnome on my B180L. Pretty impressive. First release was not stable on my system, gave me core files from time to time, especially while running file manager. Also loaded my network even if I was not doing anything (just sent packets and broadcast all the time). Conclusion - had to revert back to CDE :(. I was told second release fixed lots of problems. However did not try it.
OS - HP-UX 11.0.
Installation along requested over 300 MB under /opt + lots of GNU libraries + gcc.
Pretty heavy for my B180L. Unless you have fast new system, I would not recommend it.

Hope this helps,
0leg

[Steven E. Protter]

Yes gentlemen there does seem to have been a change since my support call back in July.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/downloads.html

I have downloaded it and will give it a shot.

Thanks for all your help. Though I found the link independently, 10 points for the guy who "disappointed" me.

I wish I could find out when HP adds support for things.

For the record, I can post the support call where I was told it wasn't supported.

Thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

it occurs to me some installation instructions would be nice.

I can't believe its as easy as swinstalling it.

How to I run it after its installed?

Steve

[Tony Contratto]

Steve,

The install instructions are here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/install.html

Step 8 has you change the default display manager from CDE to GNOME.

Tony