how to solve gui problems quicker? (was Re: [Sussex] Problem installing software)

[Nic]

"d binderman" <dcb314 at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello there,
>
>>I'm running SuSE 10.0 OSS.
>
> Good choice ;->
>
>>checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
>>your installation and add the correct paths!
>
>>Erm. What do I do now, please?
>
> Run yast as root, and make sure you have got the xorg package installed.
>
> yast will probably drag in about half the western world to satisfy the
> depedencies, but that should do it.
>
> Failing that, check for packages called something like xincludes.
>
> Off the top of my head, I don't remember one, but there are about
> 2,400 packages in Suse 10.0, so I could have forgotten a few.
>
> HTH. Any more grief, let us know.

Would any one here be interested in co-operating to build a bunch of
UMLs with various dists to make solving problems like this easier?

If there was a single resource I could go to that had SUSE 10
installed I (and many others) would be able to precisely solve this
user's problem and probably even record a movie showing how it was
done.

All it would take is:

- some bandwidth
- some disc space
- some effort from different dist users (eg: SUSE, debian, ubuntu,
  redhat)

It seems to me like the VMs could be in different places as long as
they were indexed on a webpage.


Anyone think else think this is a good idea?


Nic Ferrier