How install gnome 2.8 .2

Barq · 12-23-2004, 11:49 PM

i download all packages for gnome 2.8.2
some of these is tar.gz and some tar.bz2
how can i install them?

minm · 12-24-2004, 12:56 AM

Im not too familiar specifically with installing gnome, but most, you just untar, go into the directoy then

./configure

then make

then under root do:

make install

It should install, you might be missing some dependancy files so you need to install those first.

good luck

Barq · 12-24-2004, 03:21 AM

thank you minm.
but there are many pacakges ,thus i must to enter inside every package and write this command:
./configure
make
make install

it is boring

are these another solution?

linux-rulz · 12-24-2004, 03:55 AM

http://www.dropline.net

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 04:13 AM

I updated my Gnome from packages. You'll need only packages with similar extention. If you notice they are identical with others of different extention. Create directory and pile the archives in there.
I followed orders from http://wwwgnome.org from install section. The process is about 6-8 hours to compile, depends on your box really

linux-rulz · 12-24-2004, 04:19 AM

Why not use Dropline like I said. It would be a hell of a lot easier than compiling, espescially if he bores easily.

SlackerLX · 12-24-2004, 04:28 AM

If desired I can share my experience of using Dropline in Slackware.

manulite · 12-24-2004, 05:24 AM

You can try this link http://cipherfunk.org/garnome/, did a google search for garnome, could not find the link from gnome.org. I know you can use apt, couldn't on my Suse 9.0 there are no sources for it. Garnome is pretty much easy to use : extract point it to your sources dir (can download for u as well) and run the paranoid install. Its all the readme files.