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Hi

finally managed to install gnome2.6 winmanager w/o Garnome or such.
It was a pain! but i did it.
It feels raw, but looks cute. :rolleyes:

For those of you who who cant wait till it comes out in distro here is the installation sequence of the packages and some intermediate instructions:

(d/l) = need download separately

glib-2.4.0
(or d/l newest glib rpm - worked for me)
(d/l)fcpackage.2_1/fontconfig
/Xft

xft-2.1.2
pkgconfig-0.15.0
atk-1.6.0
pango-1.4.0
gtk+-2.4.0
libIDL-0.8.3
libwnck-2.6.0.1
libxml2-2.6.8
libxslt-1.1.5
libgtop-2.5.2
libgtkhtml-2.6.0
ORBit2-2.10.0
libbonobo-2.6.0
libglade-2.3.6
GConf-2.6.0
libart_lgpl-2.3.16
gail-1.6.0
librsvg-2.6.4
libxklavier-1.00
libgnomecanvas-2.6.0
gnome-mime-data-2.4.0

(here one would need to do the following, as the bzip2 package is needed for gnome-vfs)
install apt
apt-get update
aprt-get install bzip2-devel

gnome-vfs-2.6.0 (run ./configure with --disable-openssl option if returns error)
libgnome-2.6.0
libbonoboui-2.6.0
gnome-keyring-0.2.0
libgnomeui-2.6.0
gtk-engines-2.2.0
gnome-themes-2.6.0
(download latest hicolor theme from freedesktop.org/Software/icon-theme/releases)
gnome-icon-theme-1.2.0
libgnomeprint-2.6.0
libgnomeprintui-2.6.0
gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1
(d/l)gal-2.1.6
eel-2.6.0
audiofile-0.2.5
(d/l)esound-0.2.33
gnome-panel-2.6.0
nautilus-2.6.0
metacity-2.8.0
control-center-2.6.0.3
gnome-utils-2.6.0
startup-notification-0.5
vte-0.11.10
gnome-terminal-2.6.0
gnome-session-2.6.0
gstreamer-0.8.0
scrollkeeper-0.3.14
gtksourceview-1.0.0
gedit-2.6.0
gnome-netstatus-2.6.0.1
dasher-3.2.8
file-roller-2.6.0
eog-2.6.0
zenity-2.6.0
yelp-2.6.0
at-spi-1.4.0
gok-0.10.0
gconf-editor-2.6.0
gdm-2.6.0.0
ggv-2.6.0
gcalctool-4.3.51

cheers
Alex

PS: oh and it seems to have some retardations with scrolls