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Good luck Scott. I am trying to build Gnome from source and am running
into problems right now with building Atk and telling it where to find
Glib. After that I think I should be fine in terms of building,
installing, and running Gnome properly. Yes your rasons are similar
Scott...Trying to get my girlfriend using Linux on a Gui, so I figured
Gnome was the best place to start. Thankfully I just got the Xserver
running showing a gray screen. Right now its nothing but that's going to
soon be changed.

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Scott Howell wrote:

> Well ok I'm not rushing off to the world of GUI as 99% of things are fb
> in console mode for me, but I have a burning desire to rid my home of
> winblows xp. Of course to that end I need to learn how to use Gnome so
> my wife can be ported over to Linux...um I mean moved over to using
> Linux. Hmm wonder if you can have a cross-platform wife...well that's
> another days topic.
> Ok so apparently this apt4rpm program will let me install Gnome 2.4 from
> an rpm, but I'll be darned if I can put my packets on the bugger. So
> where can this thing be had or would I be better off building the dang
> thing from scratch.
> You know rollin' your own isn't so bad, but well that's another days
> topic as well.<grin>
>
> tia
> Scott
>
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