Running 2.6.27 on F11 instead of 2.6.29

[Suvayu Ali]

john wendel wrote:
> 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.
> 

I found out the installers for 4.6.1 have not been packaged yet. :(
http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=4985.0

After installing the dependencies you had listed, there were few more 
that I had to install. The installer still complains about libSM-devel 
and libjpeg-devel despite those packages being installed.

yum list installed \*libSM\*
Installed Packages
libSM.x86_64           1.1.0-2.fc10   installed
libSM-devel.x86_64     1.1.0-2.fc10   installed

yum list installed \*libjpeg\*
Installed Packages
libjpeg.x86_64         6b-43.fc10     installed
libjpeg-devel.x86_64   6b-43.fc10     installed

Strange!

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Suvayu

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