Linux Problems???

[fnord]

I suppose you're using debian gnu/linux, right? then you'd only have to do a apt-get install gnome, but you won't get an up to date version of gnome this way. I know there are debian packages available for gnome 2.2, but a quick search at apt-get.org and google didn't get me any ppc packages. Maybe you'll be happy with the older versions of gnome, I'm not sure, gnome 2.2. made everything a lot easier and more consistent. maybe it's available in unstable for ppc, I'm not sure.
btw if you need a graphical tool for package management and don't want to mess around with apt on the commandline do a apt-get install synaptic and you should get a really nice graphical apt frontend

[fnord]

oh, sorry, I thought they were shipping Debian with the AmigaOnes, everywhere, but I guess I mixed it up, sorry. Well, yes it does They use different package systems (dpkg/debian, rpm/SuSE). I haven't used SuSE for quuiteee some time *g, but afaik there's something called YOU (Yast online update) these days in SuSE, so you might try out to fire up yast and look if there are gnome 2.2 packages available.  I know of two different (I'm sure there are more) databases of rpm packages. ones rpmfind.net and the other's rpmseek.com. have a look at what rpmseek spits out when you ask it for gnome and PPC here

[fnord]

What do you use to fire up XFree86? Do you use a display manager ( for graphical login ... xdm, kdm, gdm etc.)? If you do chances are good that you'll be able to just select gnome at the login then. I don't think you'll mess up anything with installing gnome. Gnome and KDE packages  shouldn't  cause any conflicts at all so you should still be able to login into KDE if for some reason your Gnome installation doesn't work.