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Originally posted by Kryptow
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.
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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.