I use debian, not redhat, but my experience is that you will be far happier if you use whatever standard RPM's are available. I built Gnome from scratch once. It worked fine, the process was only moderately painful. Of course, installing from standard packages would have been a far better use of my time. I thought I would learn more about Gnome by doing so, but learned more about watching a computer compile instead. The choice of where to install some resources and libraries is sometimes a little arbitrary. For those cases, if you do not choose the same location as the package maintainer, it will probably work, but will confuse the packages when you go to perform an upgrade. Eventually, I cleaned Gnome off the computer and re-installed from the packages. Spend your time learning Gnome, not build ;o) TOm Lamm ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: building gnome from scratch Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:28:56 -0700 (MST) From: Don Raikes <draikes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx Hello, I have a redhat 9.0 system, and I am interested in building gnome 2.4 from scratch. I have tried garnome and jhbuild. Garnome has problems retrieving some packages so that when I am done, I am missing things like gnome-session. jhbuild has problems with similar packages. Is there a trick to building gnome, or is there a better method for doing it? Thanks, Don Raikes, Gnome newbie _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
