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Tim Thorburn <immortal nwconx net> wrote:
Ok, but doesn't RH9 only come with Gnome 2.2.x? I was trying to upgrade to
2.4.0 but not finding many decent tutorials out there.
oh well, I'll go look at some pretty themes in the mean time :P
At 11:12 PM 10/29/2003, you wrote:
>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.
>robertmcclure earthlink net http://www.bobcatos.com
>What if God is asking _us_ for a sign?
>
>
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