Hello,

I'm oGALAXYo, working since the past 7 years on Linux and a long years GNOME follower. I'm contributing to a bunch of GNOME projects in the past years e.g. Balsa (eMail client), Galeon (Web browser), contributed to many CVS modules with patches, enchantments and even wrote my own contributions to GNOME like Atlantis Web browser and CVSGnome. Last named one is a long years proven Build System for the GNOME Desktop.

Now what does it actually do ?.

CVSGnome is able to build a GNOME Destkop on your GNU based System. It's able to build from either released Tarballs or CVS depending on what the user likes. It's mostly following bleeding edge anyways so the GNOME you build is usually a recent one.

The idea for CVSGnome came way back around 1999-2000 when I was sitting here at home compiling GNOME 1.x from sources and where I needed to enter configure && make && make install all the time. After a while it became boring and thus I hacked a Bash Script which did the trick for me automagically. After the years passed CVSGnome became a really mature Build System which is able to deal with CVS checkouts, Tarball checkouts, which is able to deal with local copies of the checkouts and updates them whenever required, it works as a powerful wrapper to build other GTK+ or GNOME programs by exporting all sorts of required environment variables correctly and it can be burned on CD-Rom's together with the Tarballs, the Script and can be used to build a GNOME Desktop straight from CD-Rom.

So if you run Linux on your Pegasos or even x86 box and like to be on the bleeding edge Desktop then CVSGnome is what you may consider trying because it has been proven for many years, a lot of care went into the script and it has a big wide userbase.

Now some easy instructions:

1) grab CVSGnome from my site akcaagac.com
2) read the Instructions, FAQ and ChangeLog inside to avoid problems.
3) search for 'PREFIXDIR=""' in the Script and change it to a prefix you like to install GNOME e.g. PREFIXDIR="/opt/gnome2" or PREFIXDIR="/home/<yourname>/gnome2"
4) run the Script by executing the name
5) enter 'world' to build from CVS or 'world stable' to build from released Tarballs depending what you want.

That's all simply sit down and enjoy the show. There is no need to do anything else. No manual download of Tarballs or CVS, no creating of Directories or whatever.

Of course your System should be suited with development tools like GCC, Binutils, Make, Patch and all types of headerfiles because without them you can't build anything.

Further german documentation can be found on gnome.de. The official german GNOME supportsite.

> contributed to many CVS modules with patches, enchantments

Enchantments? I hope that no developers and animals were hurt in the production of your software ;)