Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

[john wendel]

Suvayu Ali wrote:
> john wendel wrote:
>> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>>> I want to upgrade mostly because of XFCE 4.6. I wanted to get rid of 
>>> Gnome completely and move to XFCE and Windowmaker. Gnome is too slow 
>>> even on high-end hardware like mine. Sometimes simply opening Firefox 
>>> or Thunderbird takes ages(5-10s). If someone were to tell me XFCE 4.6 
>>> would be available in F10 I would abandon all this jumping through 
>>> hoops right away. :)
>>>
>> You don't need to upgrade to try XFCE 4.6. I'm running XFCE 4.6 on an 
>> F8 box. Just get the installer from the XFCE site and run it. You can 
>> install in a local directory under your home directory, so it won't 
>> touch anything else on your F10 system.
>>
>> Then add the following it your .bash_profile :
>>
>>   PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/xfce4.6/bin:$PATH
>>
>> Switch to run-level 3 and run "startxfce4" and you're there.
>>
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Do you have a link for the installer? I can't seem to find any from 
> xfce.org. I however found a mirror from a post at forum.xfce.org.
> 
> http://mocha.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.6.0/installers/
> 
> Are these the ones I should be downloading?
> 

I don't remember exactly where I got the installer I used, but the link 
you have looks OK. You might want to search for a 4.6.1 installer, but I 
don't see one. Looks like I need to update. If I find anything, I'll 
post it.

Good Luck

John