Re: GNUstep Desktop

[Ondrej Florian]

Hi Svetlana,

GNUstep Desktop requires a lot of system dependecies and specific 
system configuration.
It will not run properly unless you install it as root.
Furthermore, be aware it might conflict with existing objc runtime / 
GNUstep or other libraries on your sytem.
It has always been intended to be installed as the main desktop 
environment with specific set of dependencies.

The best way to try it is to install it in its own VM (e.g. using 
virtualbox).

Ondrej

On 2023-05-26 01:23:32 +0200 Svetlana Tkachenko 
<svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:

> I would like to try this on my debian laptop, but without interfering 
> with 
> the rest of the OS. I could do that in a new OS user called 'gsde', 
> for 
> example. Could you please guide me how this could be done? I've read 
> README.md and it says "sudo -E ./build_world.sh", and I would like to 
> avoid 
> installing things as root. (I see no problem with installing 
> additional 
> debian packages as root if needed.)