Re: [Gramps-users] Mandrake 10.1 and gconf

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

I had a similar problem when I upgraded my desktop from Red Hat 9 to
Fedora Core 3. I still have not fully recovered from the upgrade. On the
other hand, I've installed FC3 on several machines at work, and it works
very well.

Don

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:07 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:26 am, Trevor wrote:
> > Doug and Don,
> >
> > > It looks as if the gconf module is not in the right place. Try the
> > > following from a terminal:
> > >
> > > $ python
> > >
> > >  >>> import gconf
> > >
> > > if this fails, then gconf is not installed correctly.
> >
> > I run Mandrake 10.1 Official here and have just installed 1.08 for the
> > first time on a this install and it went perfectly.  I also ran the above
> > without errors as well.
> 
> Sounds as though you installed 10.1 as an INSTALL.  I did it as an UPGRADE, 
> and I keep finding RPMs that are supposedly installed, but the installation 
> is incomplete.  Uninstalling them and reinstalling them fixes the current 
> problem, but it is getting rather monotonous.  It sounds as though a clean 
> install is in order.
> 
> BTW, I have the package gnome-python-gconf installed (subject to the above 
> comments).
> 
> Doug