Re: RH9 - trying to install Gnome 2.4.0

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:55:35PM -0500, Tim Thorburn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just did a fresh install of RH9 - coming from RH7.3.  The install went much 
> smoother and faster - who knew they'd improve things as they go ;)

Shocking.  Just shocking. :-)

> Ok, so here's where it gets ugly - I'm not really a fan of the whole 
> Bluecurve thing and prefer Gnome - which I had running nicely on
> RH7.3.

Well, Bluecurve is just a theme.  Unless you selected KDE, you're
still running GNOME with (I think) sawfish WM.

> So 
> off to gnome.org I go, d/l all the source files - only to find that none 
> can be made into rpm's ... so I continue my hunt to find rpm's for Gnome 
> 2.4.0 (which take an additional 2 days to d/l).  Now I've got 520 files and 
> 284megs of Gnome RPM's ... now what?  In RH7.3 I remember doing a simple: 
> rpm -ivh *.rpm and it all just installed like magic - however when I do 
> that with RH9 I'm told that either most things are there, or they won't 
> install.
> 
> Then I go onto the machine itself (I'd been doing the install from my main 
> machine using PuTty through SSH to get to the linux machine) and start 
> clicking on the rpm files individually - when I am confronted with the 
> reason for the mass install not working for me ... each file is dependent 
> upon the other and the next and the one over there ...
> 
> Now being that I like to mess around with stuff - and it is just a test 
> machine, so if it gets broken, no big I'll just re-install ... how would I 
> go about installing Gnome 2.4.0 on RH9?
> 
> Thanks
> -Tim

Go back to your original install, or punt your downloads if you
haven't installed any of them.  Then go find another theme for GNOME,
possibly at the GNOME site, or maybe

http://themes.freshmeat.net/

Caveat Linuxor: the above is based on scanty experience and hearsay.
I run AfterStep.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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