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?
> 

As a side note, here's what I had to install using "yum" before doing 
the XFCE install.

Mar 02 19:18:57 Installed: libburn-0.3.8-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:18:57 Installed: check-0.9.5-1.fc8.1.i386
Mar 02 19:18:58 Installed: libglade2-devel-2.6.2-4.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:18:59 Installed: libart_lgpl-devel-2.3.19-3.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:18:59 Installed: libgnomecanvas-devel-2.20.1-3.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:01 Installed: popt-devel-1.13-4.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:01 Installed: check-devel-0.9.5-1.fc8.1.i386
Mar 02 19:19:02 Installed: libIDL-devel-0.8.9-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:02 Installed: libgpg-error-devel-1.5-6.i386
Mar 02 19:19:02 Installed: libgcrypt-devel-1.2.4-6.i386
Mar 02 19:19:03 Installed: libxslt-devel-1.1.24-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:03 Installed: gnome-keyring-devel-2.20.3-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:04 Installed: 1:audiofile-devel-0.2.6-7.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:04 Installed: 1:esound-devel-0.2.38-6.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:07 Installed: gnutls-devel-1.6.3-5.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:08 Installed: libburn-devel-0.3.8-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:09 Installed: pcre-devel-7.3-4.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:09 Installed: libxklavier-devel-3.3-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:11 Installed: gstreamer-plugins-base-devel-0.10.15-4.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:12 Installed: libnotify-devel-0.4.4-8.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:12 Installed: libexif-devel-0.6.16-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:13 Installed: libXres-devel-1.0.3-3.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:13 Installed: libsexy-devel-0.1.11-3.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:13 Installed: libmpd-devel-0.15.0-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:14 Installed: ORBit2-devel-2.14.10-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:14 Installed: libisofs-0.2.8-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:15 Installed: libgsf-devel-1.14.7-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:16 Installed: gstreamer-devel-0.10.15-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:17 Installed: libwnck-devel-2.20.3-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:17 Installed: GConf2-devel-2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:18 Installed: gnome-vfs2-devel-2.20.1-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:20 Installed: libbonobo-devel-2.20.3-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:20 Installed: libgnome-devel-2.20.1-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:21 Installed: libisofs-devel-0.2.8-2.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:21 Installed: libbonoboui-devel-2.20.0-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:22 Installed: libgnomeui-devel-2.20.1.1-1.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:23 Installed: libcroco-devel-0.6.1-3.fc8.i386
Mar 02 19:19:23 Installed: librsvg2-devel-2.18.2-2.fc8.i386