Quite simply the computer I am trying to set rox desktop in it's complete extra apps included is not to be connected to the internet at any cost. There are reasons for that, as the highly customized version of opensuse 10.1 that I am still fleshing out with all sorts of extras suse feels it shouldn't provide is intended to do a certain large number of jobs that require it not to be ever connected to the internet at all.
I have added afterstep 2+, fluxbox, enlightenment, pekwm, xfce4 (complete desktop inclusive of thunar with hal support), scribus, EDE a desktop environment, UDE, at least two extra flavours of fvwm, and many other useful environments and utilities that this linuxbox will need,
SciTE etc. all on top of the opensuse 10.1 install, and all compiled from source, without a hitch apart from some rewriting of the odd configure file to implement /usr/local or /opt/gnome wherever needed.
BUT. The ROX Desktop, Oroborox, and associated Olix desktop environments and apps have proved incredibly troublesome, not in the least because whilst I may install rox from source code, it worked okay.
all of the other desktop associated packages on sourceforge required zero install downloads.
So I ask humbly if there is a complete Rox Desktop and associated applications complete download that doesn't include zeroinstall scripts, or AppRun which is equally annoying if you have no internet connection. At this point I will take source code or ready built binaries in rpm deb tgz tar.gz zip 7z cpio or any other package bundle or even just source code text with a good manual, but if I don't find it soon I think I am going to walk away
In a short while I am giving up attempting to install rox
the reason?
Quite simply the computer I am trying to set rox desktop in it's complete extra apps included is not to be connected to the internet at any cost. There are reasons for that, as the highly customized version of opensuse 10.1 that I am still fleshing out with all sorts of extras suse feels it shouldn't provide is intended to do a certain large number of jobs that require it not to be ever connected to the internet at all.
I have added afterstep 2+, fluxbox, enlightenment, pekwm, xfce4 (complete desktop inclusive of thunar with hal support), scribus, EDE a desktop environment, UDE, at least two extra flavours of fvwm, and many other useful environments and utilities that this linuxbox will need,
SciTE etc. all on top of the opensuse 10.1 install, and all compiled from source, without a hitch apart from some rewriting of the odd configure file to implement /usr/local or /opt/gnome wherever needed.
BUT. The ROX Desktop, Oroborox, and associated Olix desktop environments and apps have proved incredibly troublesome, not in the least because whilst I may install rox from source code, it worked okay.
all of the other desktop associated packages on sourceforge required zero install downloads.
So I ask humbly if there is a complete Rox Desktop and associated applications complete download that doesn't include zeroinstall scripts, or AppRun which is equally annoying if you have no internet connection. At this point I will take source code or ready built binaries in rpm deb tgz tar.gz zip 7z cpio or any other package bundle or even just source code text with a good manual, but if I don't find it soon I think I am going to walk away
sincerely. Nick.