I just installed an SLES 11 system for the first time. I’ve been using other distros for testing for various projects (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora Core 16, CentOS, RHEL 6.2, etc.). I need to have certain items listed on certain menus within SLES’s GNOME desktop, but unlike openSUSE (which includes a menu editor called alacarte (in GNOME it is simply listed as “Main Menu”)), I’m unable to find a copy of alacarte included with SLES 11 or anywhere else on the Internet for that matter (or any other gui-based menu editor). I’ve attempted to install the openSUSE alacarte menu editor into SLES 11 but every attempt has failed. In fact, there seems to be a fair amount of software that comes with openSUSE that doesn’t appear to be available in SLES 11.
Since I have to use SLES 11 for this project, does anyone know of a way to get some of this missing software installed and working on SLES 11? Right now, my primary concern is having a way to easily edit the menus within GNOME. I realize that most Linux users prefer to use the command line to do most of their work and while I started out my computer career on the command line (with MS-DOS 1.0), I’ve been using Windows for so long that I prefer doing as much as possible from a GUI rather than from the command line.
Hi
alacarte is there? From the menu system it’s under Tools Main Menu -
System view and Main Menu - User view. You can swap the menu over in
the panel, by right click and select ‘Add to Panel’ and select
Traditional Main Menu or Menu Bar for a custom version. To revert it’s
called Main Menu.
You might want to look at also adding the SLE SDK, which includes
additional devel packages.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default
up 1 day 1:03, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis][QUOTE=dwoeltje]
I just installed an SLES 11 system for the first time. I’ve been using
other distros for testing for various projects (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora
Core 16, CentOS, RHEL 6.2, etc.). I need to have certain items listed on
certain menus within SLES’s GNOME desktop, but unlike openSUSE (which
includes a menu editor called alacarte (in GNOME it is simply listed as
“Main Menu”)), I’m unable to find a copy of alacarte included with SLES
11 or anywhere else on the Internet for that matter (or any other
gui-based menu editor). I’ve attempted to install the openSUSE alacarte
menu editor into SLES 11 but every attempt has failed. In fact, there
seems to be a fair amount of software that comes with openSUSE that
doesn’t appear to be available in SLES 11.
Since I have to use SLES 11 for this project, does anyone know of a way
to get some of this missing software installed and working on SLES 11?
Right now, my primary concern is having a way to easily edit the menus
within GNOME. I realize that most Linux users prefer to use the command
line to do most of their work and while I started out my computer career
on the command line (with MS-DOS 1.0), I’ve been using Windows for so
long that I prefer doing as much as possible from a GUI rather than from
the command line.
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Hi
alacarte is there? From the menu system it’s under Tools Main Menu -
System view and Main Menu - User view. You can swap the menu over in
the panel, by right click and select ‘Add to Panel’ and select
Traditional Main Menu or Menu Bar for a custom version. To revert it’s
called Main Menu.
You might want to look at also adding the SLE SDK, which includes
additional devel packages.
[/QUOTE]
Ahh SLES…my bad. I was on SLED…
Do you have any SLED 11 systems?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default
up 1 day 1:12, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
That doesn’t work either. Any attempt to install alacarte produces an error message indicating that alacarte-lang must first be installed because alacarte requires it. Any attempt to install alacarte-lang produces a similar error that alacarte-lang cannot be installed because it has alacarte as a dependency. Both packages list the other as a dependency, so you get stuck in a catch-22 situation. You can’t install A without B already installed and you can’t install B without A already installed. They seem to have done something deliberately to keep people from installing applications intended for SLED onto SLES (and without providing an alternative). I ran into another problem. I can’t get Adobe flash working as a plugin on this SLES system. I managed to get Adobe Reader working because its install process was different from that of Flash. But I cannot get Flash working. I’ve tried copying the libflashplayer.so file into every conceivable directory that I could come up with and I still can’t get Firefox to find it and recognize it as a plugin; I don’t know where Firefox is looking for those plugins.
I’ve tried the following directories:
/usr/lib64/plugins (my system is a 64-bit system)
/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
/usr/lib64/browser_plugins
/usr/bin/plugins
/usr/bin/browser-plugins
/usr/bin/browser_plugins
/home//plugins
/home//browser-plugins
/home//browser_plugins
/home//.mozilla/plugins
/home//.mozilla/browser-plugins
/home//.mozilla/browser_plugins
When I installed Firefox 11 on this system, I used a manual method, so I also put “plugin” directories here to see if that would work:
Every one of those directories listed above has a libflashplayer.so file in it and that file is set to chmod 777 (to make sure it can be read, written, and executed). Now, when I installed Adobe Reader and I determined that it was working (and working as a plugin), I checked all those directories and the only one where I found what appeared to be Adobe Reader’s library file was /opt/firefox11/plugins. In that directory, in addition to the libflashplayer.so file that I had put there manually, I also found an nppdf.so file.
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