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Old 04-23-2004, 01:31 PM   #1
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installing gnome...


planning to install gnome from the pre-compiled packages on the slackware website... could tell what packages should i download to get gnome running... (well i intend to install all available packages available to gnome on the slackware website)

thanks in advance...
 
Old 04-23-2004, 02:05 PM   #2
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It should be on your cd.
 
Old 04-23-2004, 02:22 PM   #3
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i've got gnome 2.4 on the system but wanna install 2.6... maybe ma question was not too clear earlier... so what pre-compiled packages should i download from www.slackware.org/pb

thanks in advance...
 
Old 04-23-2004, 03:31 PM   #4
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-current doesn't have Gnome 2.6 yet. But... if you were to install the current packages it does have then just trod to the /slackware-current/slackware/gnome/ directory of a mirror and download the files in there. But now it's just 2.4 so don't bother.
 
Old 04-23-2004, 04:14 PM   #5
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thanks... at least now i know where to look...
 
Old 04-25-2004, 09:53 AM   #6
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just another questions... if i did download all of the upto date packages from the gnome directory... does it include all the library packages as well? or do i have to download them from somewhere else?

thanks in advance...
 
  


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