[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware and Ximian Gnome (Final Post)

Alton R. Pouncey, II alton at trainers-r-us.com
Tue Sep 10 17:17:50 CDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 15:33, Patrick Parks wrote:

[... snip ...]

> After all of that, this is the error message I got:
> 
> 
> 
> snip
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> go-gnome: 4.0.6 (Thu May 30 12:36:01 EDT 2002)
> 
> Welcome to the Ximian Desktop pre-installer.
> 
> This script is meant to make installing Ximian Desktop as easy as
> possible. Just read the text below, hit ENTER, and you're on your way.
> 
> Ximian Desktop ships with no warranty whatsoever, without even the
> implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
> purpose. The author and Ximian, Inc take no responsibility for the
> consequences of running this script.
> 
> Please send any questions to <distribution at ximian.com>.
> 
> To install Ximian Desktop now, press ENTER.
> 
> To cancel, press Control-C.
> 
> 
> Error!
> 
> Sorry, the operating system unknown is not supported by this
> Ximian Desktop CD. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please see
> http://www.ximian.com/desktop/ for more information.
> 
> 
> Cleaning up temporary files... done.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /snip
> 
> 

Now it's chocking on this part of the script:

os=`uname -s`
if [ $os != Linux -a $os != SunOS ]
then
    bail_os $os
fi

What does `uname -s` tell you?

> -- 
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Alton R. Pouncey, II
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