gnome-core not flagged for AMD64

Stern · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

I installed Gnome today (because I felt like it). After doing this, I downloaded the source for multi-gnome-terminal (since the package for it can't be installed on AMD64) and it told me that gnome-config wasn't installed, and it was going to stop running. I found this odd, and checked which packages that had "gnome" in the name weren't installed. I saw that gnome-core wasn't installed, and checked to see why. It turns out that there is no way to install gnome-core on AMD64. Isn't this an important package, and why doesn't someone do something to make it supported?

yngwin

Stern · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

True, it is.

The main question still applies: why not gnome-core?

yngwin · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject:

Maybe because it's like 4 years old. That was before AMD64 became available, so it's never been updated to work with the new architecture. Everybody else uses gnome 2 instead.
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Stern · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2006 Posts: 12

Ah, gnome-core is for gnome 1.x. Didn't realize that... Thanks.