hi all,

anyone tried installing it? any suggested procedure?

thanks,

aj.

I think you meant gnome 2.10. Yes, I compiled it and it works fine on Slack current. The only thing I can say is that make sure you read the documentation so that you install the packages in the right order.

I would follow the instructions on using GARNOME, or realize you're using slackware and gnome is no longer being supported on it.

definitely the most unexpected reply i've ever had on linux forums

absolutely. corrected.

i think i'll give it a try, though i am currently running dropline. not sure that it is a good idea to install gnome 2.10 next to it...

I don't think its a good idea unless you install it on a clean slack install or in your home directory using garnome.

ok red,

seeing all the distro you're using i just HAVE to ask.

i start missing some 'control' over my slack box, surely because of my unexperience. this is the point: with GNOME being abandoned by slack, i feel i depend pretty much on dropline and other people's choice on what/when to upgrade which package.

i'd like to have a linux box that i can easily select what i really need (not the standard 16,000 packages installed all over the place), mainly compile from source (not linux core like gentoo, but softwares) - and for both of these reasons i really enjoyed the slack experience. but, i'd also like to have a package management that does work (seems that apt-get really IS unbeatable), easily update things like gnome 2.10 without the need to ask to anyone, X.org (not XFree), and a good community behind.

...would you have any recommandations on distro / slackware methodology to achieve what i'm looking for...?

cheers and thank you,

aj.

It's been mentioned here before, but you may have missed it (this is a very busy forum).

http://gsb.sourceforge.net/

Intelligently built Gnome and related packages designed for Slackware.

Looking for gnome source is like chasing your own tail. Just that, you don't have a tail.

And gsb doesn't tell you where to look for it.

It gives you the slack build script and their own binary. That's it! I must be missing out something really big at www.gnome.org

Something really big like these, perhaps?
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.10/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.10/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.10/

Thanks AxelFendersson!

i guess my point has been a little annihilated

i'm thinking right now to install slack with practically nothing (i.e. no kde, no gnome, but only X.org and some basic packages), then:

- update the kernel to 2.6.11
- install gnome 2.10
- install all relevant packages later on directly from source such as openoffice, etc.

...what would you think?

Thats what I did for GNOME. I mainly use KDE, so didn't wanna mess that up, so I did a clean install of Slack on a spare partition and just installed a bare bones Slack system then compiled GNOME.

i basically like to avoid KDE if i can (except k3b is the only really good burner out there, and it needs klibs...).

did you read my post to you here above?

About installing Slack with pratically nothing. Well, thats the one that I replied to