Problems with Ximian Desktop

[night_monkey]

I've been playing with Linux for about 4 months now, and I've been lurking around the fourms now for a little over 3 months. :)Finally decided to make a post. YEAH! Anyway I'm currently running Mandrake 8.2 on an AMD 500Mhz mix-&match box. I (finally) got Ximian Desktop installed. My question is this: has anyone else had significant problems with Red Carpet and updates? i can't get it to correctly install anything it downloads. I love the desktop GUI, and Evolution is an excellent email app. Just wish Red Carpet would work.
Please keep any answers/help as simple as possible. I still have very little idea what i'm doing. Everything I know about Linux is self taught, and i have a looooooooooooooong way to go.
Thanks for any help!

[fancypiper]

Try running it from an x terminal like this and watch the error messages:

su -
Password: <enter root's password>
root@computername] # red-carpet

Any hints from the x terminal messages?

[night_monkey]

Thanks alot for that idea. Don't know what it did but eveything is working great now. I didn't get any error messages. Maybe there was a problem at Ximian's end of the connection.

[saithan]

I have noticed a problem it has getting pam to authorize it to luanch from a user account in redhat 7.1 and 7.3 (even after being prompted for the root password).

However I have no prob initializing it while fully logged on as root. (for maintainance and upgrades (rare)).

So really my problem is not an inconvenience.

Try initiallizing red carpet while logged on in X as root. (if you have not already) Might be a simular issue.

for something simular and more functional (IMHO) try apt-rpm with synaptic on the front. true god-send for the lazy man.

[Raoul_Duke]

Originally posted by saithan
for something simular and more functional (IMHO) try apt-rpm with synaptic on the front. true god-send for the lazy man.

I would like to second that......bye bye, rpm dependancy hell :D