Mandriva
Note: Mandriva Linux was formerly known as Mandrake.
Note: These instructions are written for installing ROX on Mandriva 2006 (but based on the instructions for 9.2). These should still hold true for later versions, but your milege may vary.
The preferred method of installation is to use Mandrake's urpmi installer. You'll need to add the contribs repository using the following command (as root):
$ urpmi.addmedia contrib \ > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2006.0/i586/media/contrib\ > with media_info/hdlist.cz
If you want to use another mirror, the program urpmi.setup (also available as web version at
http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php) is your friend.Then you can install the packages (also as root):
$ urpmi rox-lib
You will be prompted to install additional packages:
To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (3 MB): rox-2.3-1mdk.i586 rox-lib-2.0.2-1mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n)
This will install ROX-Filer, the shared-mime-database required by it and the rox-lib package required by ROX applications written in Python. Then you can start ROX-Filer by typing rox on your command prompt.
There are numerous other rox related packages as well, to install them, enter the following on the command line as root (all as one line):
$ urpmi -a librox-c1 librox-c1-devel rox-archive rox-clib rox-freefs rox-gcb \ > rox-magickthumbnail rox-menu rox-mime-editor rox-mixer rox-musicbox \ > rox-oroborox rox-pager rox-session rox-system rox-systray rox-utils \ > rox-wallpaper rox-wrappers-multimedia rox-wrappers-networking \ > rox-wrappers-office rox-wrappers-texttools rox-wrappers-utils
To make ROX the default desktop on login, run ROX-Session from the filer. This makes the "default" session listed in GDM start the ROX desktop. Choosing to set another WM as default will prevent you from logging into ROX. This can be remedied by setting ROX as a unique login Session in GDM.
To set ROX as a unique Session in GDM do the following as root:
$ cp ~/.xsession /etc/Xll/gdm/Session/ROX $ chmod 755 ROX
This will create a Session in the GDM login manager for ROX, allowing you to easily switch between ROX and GNOME, KDE, XFCE4, etc.
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Mandriva install is broken
These instructions will not work with Mandriva 2006 because the python2.4/config/Makefile does not exist. On other systems, installing python-dev will fix this, but there is no such rpm available for Mandriva.
Python Devel In Mandriva
I beleive for you too , the rpms in ROX-all package were bogus for M2006. For the python-dev, you need to install libpython2.4-devel. Then you can install 0launch running "python setup.py install" under the 0launch/Other directory, that installed and ./rox worked fine for me. I also installed zero-install rpm's from cooker, and started zeroinstall service before all this and all good so far...
Unrelated to mandriva
Can't help it , THIS STUFF IS COOL ! The best use of gtk+ i've seen. I wish there's a disribution built around this, is there?
yup:
yup:
Rox OS
http://roxos.sunsite.dk/
looks pretty dead however.
david
librox-c6, librox-c-devel and no rox-utils
Mandriva 2010 Spring ships librox-c6 and librox-c-devel and rox-utils is no more.