Posts: 2833 from 2003/2/8
From: USA
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ANN. Who am I to argue? The original text follows:
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For all those who want to use a newer GNOME version (rather than 2.2) you can use CVSGnome (from my homepage) which helps you building a new GNOME from either CVS or TARBALLS.
1) grab the script
2) edit PREFIXDIR="" to point to the location you like to install GNOME. E.g. PREFIXDIR="/opt/gnome2" or PREFIXDIR="/home/<yourname>/gnome2" or whatever.
3) run the script and choose either:
'world' to build from CVS or 'world stable' to build from released Tarballs.
This will automagically download all required Tarballs from GNOME's FTP server, unpack them, create a new directoryhierarchy and build GNOME for you in the PREFIX described above. Same is valid for CVS. It will automagically check CVS out and build GNOME for you.
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_cvsgnome.htmlThe 0.4.3 version is for GNOME 2.3.5 (released last week) and the 0.4.4 is a Testversion with a lot of new updated Tarballs for the upcomming 2.4.0-rc1 candidate (2.3.6). Of course this script is written by me and heavily tested, maintained, checked, updated by me over the past 3 years.
PS: This script can also be used to build other GNOME related software (it acts as wrapper and exports a lot of variables). There are also KDE update and checkout scripts on my webpage as well (also written by me) for those who want to use a bleeding edge KDE system look under tools.