ROX Desktop

[Liam Proven]

Is anyone using the ROX desktop on Ubuntu?

Not just the ROX-Filer, which is in the universe repository and thus
very easy, but the desktop environment, controlled by ROX-Session.

I've just spent some time trying to install it on a clean install of
Breezy, but having got ROX's Zeroinstall system running, it can't
install ROX-Session. The error message is incomprehensible but seems
to involve lib-glib-1.0.so being missing.

There is a Debian package of Zeroinstall available, but it won't
install. Dpkg says it depends upon Python >> 2.4. This puzzles me as
Breezy includes 2.4.2.

I installed from a tarball instead, adding in the python-dev packages
and lib-glib-1-1 and lib-glib-1-dev and a whole lot more besides. It
runs but attempting to Zeroinstall ROX-Session crashes to a halt,
though smaller packages like ROX Edit and ROX Memo work fine.

I'd welcome any hints, tips or feedback!

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