Installing Gnome 2
 

From what i have read and tried already i am under the impression i missed something somewhere in the installation process.

A few weeks ago i got all 60 files that are needed for gnome 2 but after compiling them in order still no change. Is there a special way of upgrading from ximian gnome desktop to Gnome 2? Has anyone successfully accomplished this task if so can you tell me what I need to get gome 2 up and running. I fdisk my pc earlier this week and as it stands right now i have ximian desktop up and running on Redhat 7.3

So if it is possible to get some assitance with this installation i would be quite grateful.


Thank you

When it's installed I use
gnome-session
to start it.

Ok let me ask you guys this though some people use their own prefix for the files is this necessary or can i use the configure command without any changes then make and make install? After repeating this process over and over again and i have made all the files there is still no change in the start up of gnome login. I am using Ximain gnome 2 right now but it isn't complete as that of gnome 2 compiled from the source.

Is there a significant difference between Ximain Gnome 2 developer snapshots and Gnome 2 ?

Prefixes are useful, because you can have many versions of the same program installed (like my kde3.0.3 and 3.1beta) in one system and it's easier to uninstall a program that has its own directory (usually you can just delete it, without searching for its libraries). But if it's not important for you, configure without a prefix is OK.
Your new GNOME is not in your boot menu (if you're using a graphical login). To test your new installation, you can chache your default runlevel to 3 (in /etc/inittab, line 'id:x:initdefault', where x is your default runlevel, for X at boot it's 5), reboot, log in in the text mode, create file .xinitrc in your home directory, write 'gnome-session' inside, save the file and run startx.