GNOME 2.6 on Fedora

Shannon McMackin mcmackin at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 16 03:15:05 UTC 2004


Colin Charles wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 00:45, Jeremiah McElroy wrote:
> 
>>I know that GNOME 2.6 will eventually be available in the FC2 release.  
>>However, I was curious if there are any potential breakage issues with 
>>compiling GNOME 2.6 from source on an FC1 system.  If anyone has had any 
>>experience with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> I've done just this, using jhbuild on a FC1 system; there are some
> things to install, but all generally goes well
> 
> jhbuild pulls from CVS, Garnome uses tarballs - take your pick
> 
> My experiences:
> http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2004/2/1/building-gnome-25
I just successfully used garnome-2.5.92 on my FC 1 system.  No visible 
issues yet.  I had to add some of the devel rpms like bzip2.

Shannon McMackin
mcmackin at earthlink.net





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